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Flying the Wiretapped Skies

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-hear-what-i-hear dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The FBI is lobbying the FCC for the power to to quickly wiretap in-flight broadband services under CALEA. The feds are afraid terrorists will use the services to coordinate hijackings or remotely activate bombs, and they want to be able to interrupt or redirect a airplane's Internet access during a crisis, or to start sniffing packets within 10 minutes of identifying a suspicious passenger and getting court approval. Here is the FCC filing."

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  1. OS by gunpowda · · Score: 3, Funny
    [They are]fearful that terrorists will exploit emerging in-flight broadband services to remotely activate bombs or coordinate hijackings...

    Ahh, the SP2 roll-out's not done yet.

  2. I dare.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    everyone else onboard with broadband to browse several pages of al-jazzeera and to make anonymous posts on slashdot mentioning atleast: bombing, airplane, suicide, assassin, bush..

    oh, gotta go, flight marshall wants to have a word..

  3. here's how to deal with all that data by herbert_axelrod · · Score: 0, Funny

    more data | grep bomb

  4. Re:If the terrorists want to kill you at 30k feet. by needacoolnickname · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm impressed that they're asking for authorization.

  5. NEWS FLASH: Teenager Arrested at Airport by bornyesterday · · Score: 3, Funny
    Arrested when he walked off the plane, the teenager was charged with conspiring to commit an act of terrorism. Authorities stated that communications he sent while on the plane tipped them off. When queried as to what he said, they provided this bit of text.

    Dude! This is the BOMB! I am having such a great time ON this PLANE. Me and Susan decided to 'HIDE THE EVIDENCE' IN THE RESTROOM! It was amazing. She BLEW me away. The low pressure got me UP a lot faster. We should be getting into Dallas around 12:45. Peace!

    The authorities then noted that the Arabic word "Salaam" means "Peace."

  6. In related news... by dfn5 · · Score: 2, Funny
    The feds are afraid terrorists will use the services to coordinate hijackings

    In related news, upon hearing that their phone calls are being monitored terrorists have resorted to synchronizing watches beforehand.

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  7. MPAA-RIAA by ballsmccoy · · Score: 1, Funny

    Quick, he took the DVD for the in-flight movie, stipped off the Region 9 region code (the special airplane region code...Look it up), ripped it to his hard drive and is now seeding a bittorrent----We'll be ariving in atlanta in six hours......

    The security level has been raised to orange as "War of the worlds" was ripped from American Airlines Flight 223......Surely the work of terrorists....

  8. Most common conversation by m00nun1t · · Score: 5, Funny

    The most common packets intercepted by the FBI:

    [Bill has just logged in]
    Bob: Hey d00d!
    Bill: wassup?
    Bob: guess where I am?
    Bill: where, d00d?
    Bob: I'm 30,000 feet above Colorado!
    Bill: No WAYY!
    Bob: TOTALLY!

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  9. Re:Regarding the Indymedia incident by eobanb · · Score: 2, Funny

    be it breaking CSS

    I use Firefox you insensitive clod.

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