BRITISH PEOPLE, MASTERS OF INFORMATION SECURITY!!!z
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Oops! Train control centre passwords revealed on BBC TV
A BBC documentary revealed more than it planned this week, exposing the passwords used at a rail control centre, overseeing part of England’s rail system.
I can't wait to see the Telegraph headline on this one.
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You should really get your keyboard fixed.
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Did anyone else guess this was posted by blakeyrat just by looking at the title?
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Did anyone else guess this was posted by blakeyrat just by looking at the title?
Yes
<fucktits>While you're at it, a stronger password than "Password3" might be an idea as well.
Coincidentally, BBC News ran a story just last week discussing fears that computer systems controlling the signal system in the UK could be vulnerable to hacking attacks.
*hangs her head in shame on behalf of her countrykin*
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This is the second time within a month. Phishing is now obsolete, start watching TV!
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Now, if only there was software that could slow down videos that come in and save the scenes so you could search through them for passwords ...
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And OCR?
<insert clip from Antitrust here>
Also:
Welcome to the shitlist, grahamcluley.com
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Now that would be a killer feature for SSDS!
Would you have to tape all of your documents side-by-side before using it?
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I caught your original reference, but I was actually going for "Antitrust", a movie in which an evil company steals code from programmers by filming their screens and OCRing it.
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I caught your original reference, but I was actually going for "Antitrust", a movie in which an evil company steals code from programmers by filming their screens and OCRing it.
I... What? How does that even?
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Seen dumber. There's that Harrison Ford movie where he steals bank account numbers by tearing the CCD out of a scanner and plugging it into an iPod, then holding it against the screen.
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Just do yourself a favour and watch it. It's like Hackers, only slightly less ridiculous. I had fun.
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Seen dumber. There's that Harrison Ford movie where he steals bank account numbers by tearing the CCD out of a scanner and plugging it into an iPod, then holding it against the screen.
Point conceded. That's definitely worse.
sigh
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I caught your original reference, but I was actually going for "Antitrust", a movie in which an evil company steals code from programmers by filming their screens and OCRing it.
If that's the film I'm thinking about, they don't OCR; they murder and steal the code directly.And the CEO of 'teh evilz' is basically Bill Gates; the company is a so-transparent-you-can-read-through-it take on Microsoft.
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If that's the film I'm thinking about, they don't OCR; they murder and steal the code directly.
No, they murder them after they decide they got too close to being competitors ;)
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I'll admit, it's been awhile since I watched it…
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Relevant.
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More like "annoy the pilots greatly by zapping the AC busses". The FADECs have their own PMGs, and as long as there are enough instruments working to fly straight and level in the conditions (which could very well be "almost none" on a bright, clear day), it's just a matter of "one pilot runs the QRH procedures while the other flies").
Also, most planes don't stay on that long at a time -- they have to be turned off for the maintenance A-check...
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Also, most planes don't stay on that long at a time -- they have to be turned off for the maintenance A-check...
I already twittered that, I guess Monarch is reading my twitters and ... sharing it here for ... a reason?
Anyway if you're going to panic about something, panic about the airline that goes 248 days between inspections.
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Anyway if you're going to panic about something, panic about the airline that goes 248 days between inspections.
In general, while you could technically go 248 days between A checks on an infrequently flown aircraft (as the A check happens every 250-odd flight hours, or 200-300 flight cycles), very few airlines would fly their planes that infrequently (under seven flight hours per week)
However, the B check comes every six months, so that'd intervene first...
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If the plane were to be sitting around for a few days, wouldn't you turn stuff off?
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If the plane were to be sitting around for a few days, wouldn't you turn stuff off?
Generally, an airplane at the gate will have ground power hooked up to it -- now if you mean parking it at a remote hardstand for a while, then I could see it being left with a dark cockpit, but that's not very common, typically.
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Now I'm curious, do they have keys, or how do you lock a plane? How du you ensure nobody will do a GTA style joyride?
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Generally, an airplane at the gate will have ground power hooked up to it -- now if you mean parking it at a remote hardstand for a while, then I could see it being left with a dark cockpit, but that's not very common, typically.
I imagine there are few airports that would be happy with having a 787 sitting idle at a gate for a few days. But we're already suspending a lot of disbelief here.
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Now I'm curious, do they have keys, or how do you lock a plane? How du you ensure nobody will do a GTA style joyride?
Small airplanes do have ignition keys of sorts (as well as door keys, and various other sorts of locks) because they can get parked all sorts of places, some of which lack good security. Big airplanes are pretty hard to GTA without someone noticing -- not the least because if you just tried to start the engines and go, the game over screen would read "WASTED" to go with the smoldering crater on it, as you wouldn't have run all the important stuff in the checklists; besides, ramp security at big airports is relatively tight, and it's pretty hard to get into a jetliner if there's no jetbridge or airstairs at it.I imagine there are few airports that would be happy with having a 787 sitting idle at a gate for a few days. But we're already suspending a lot of disbelief here.
Yeah, Ramp Control would be screaming at you until the pigs start calling Clearance Delivery...
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Would you have to tape all of your documents side-by-side before using it?
And film it so that it's easier to search through, right?
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Do we have a "bad-for-you-but-good-for-everyone-else ideas" thread?
