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Warning on air traffic hacking


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June 06, 2006


HACKERS armed with little more than a laptop computer could conjure up phantom planes on the screens of Australia's air traffic controllers using new radar technology.


A prominent businessman and Australian aviator claims to have found another security flaw in the new software being introduced in the air traffic control system.

He has challenged Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss to allow him to set up a demonstration of the problem at a test of the technology in Queensland to show how hackers could exploit the automatic dependent surveillance broadcasting (ASD-B) system to create false readings on an air traffic controller's screen.

The air space activist says he had been told of the flaw by staff at the US Federal Aviation Administration.

"FAA officials have become aware that an electronics boffin, using a second-hand or 'borrowed' transponder from a small (general aviation) aircraft connected to a $5 data lead, a $5 aerial and a laptop computer, can create 10, 20 or even 50 false aircraft on an air traffic controller's screen," Mr Smith says in a letter to Mr Truss.

"This will create total chaos in the air traffic control system."

Australia is at the forefront of ASD-B, which uses the global positioning system and aircraft avionics to automatically broadcast information about a plane's position, speed and direction.

Authorities are poised to introduce the system for high-level airspace, but are yet to make a decision on whether to use it at lower altitudes.

The US is also rolling out ASD-B. The technology has been enthusiastically endorsed by senior executives of the aviation administration and the airline industry.

But businessman, who is campaigning against the scheme and has raised safety and security concerns about the design, said the system had no way of verifying whether a plane was where it claimed to be or if it existed at all.

He said the FAA was looking at ways of encrypting signals or setting up multiple ground stations at each location to allow the traffic controllers to determine whether a signal came from a moving aircraft.

This would significantly increase the cost of ADS-B.

"As we all know, criminals create viruses for computer networks which have cost the world hundreds of millions of dollars," the businessman said.

"Exactly the same people are likely to create spoofing for the air traffic control system."

A spokeswoman for Mr Truss said yesterday the minister had received a lot of correspondence from Mr Smith on ADS-B.

"This recent letter is being considered and we will be writing back formally to him," she said. "The Businessman did meet the minister in the past few weeks and we would point out that no decision about ADS-B has been made, nor is a decision imminent."



-- Edited by karatecatman at 00:57, 2006-06-06

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ADS-B is great, but not 100% reliable. I have gotten traffic alerts on the ground :)
Interesting article, at least the idea behind it. Sadly, it once again reminds us that people are always looking to exploit any situation.....
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Can this be possible? heading for danger!



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This is one serious Danger.


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I shudder imagining the dangers it can create-leading to air miss or a probable collision. And it's been installed at Mumbai airport on an experimental basis!


gosh! rush for anit-virus software



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BOM airport systems r already prone to 1000 viruses who cares abt them.. u know wat i mean


lol


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hmm, true very true brigadier


sad the way they boast themselves of being the most efficient ones.


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The internal truth is that some rookie atc fellows who are asst. even dont know fluent english


what do u expect from such people



-- Edited by the_380 at 19:11, 2006-06-27

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Well, well, the RT is mostly in codes- it's accent that matters- and ofcourse a common language does matter.


With the ATC going hi-tech, i wonder if the ATC have enough tech-brain to learn all that!



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"tech-brain" well thats impossible as long as u go on reserving quotas


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lol brigadier. It applies to everybody. if one doesn't understand the logic behind any proposal and decision, blunders will continue to hog our nation.


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I dont agree.These ATC guys are doing a Fantastic job under Pressure.Especially at Peak hrs.


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I agree that they are doing their job well. It was a discussion on the problems they have- language problem is found and they have been instructed to go through an English refresher course.


there have been incidents of air miss and also an aircrash


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  I agree that they are doing their job well. It was a discussion on the problems they have- language problem is found and they have been instructed to go through an English refresher course. there have been incidents of air miss and also an aircrash bhargavi


Which was the Crash.


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well there was one between saudi 747 and some other i guess ukraine in del or somewhere

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That was in July 02, 2002- mid-air collision between Russian jetliner- Tupolev 154 by Russian Bashkirian airlines and the other was a cargo plane.


Two planes came in near collision zone and the TCAS warning honked- but the ATC fellow gave a different guidance, which led to collision - as told to me by an ATC Official (100% sure). The collsion happened in European skies.


Tragic tag to the story -And the Russian aircraft was carrying a bunch of kids. Father of one of those kids shot that ATC official in Spain!


That's the whole story. sigh!


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European skies u got me wrong bhargavi the 1 i spoke was somewhere around 1986 and between some ukraine and saudi carrier over indian skies

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True.


That was Lack of TCAS related.


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It was not lack of TCAS-  it was lack of proper guidance to keep both the pilots aware of the situation and guide them appropriately. If both had followed the TCAS, accident would be avoided. One followed TCAS and the other followed ATCO.


Whose responsibility is to guide and control the planes in the skies?


who is responsible for the tragic incident? ( i am not emotional. But in my opinion, both the pilots had to be explained the situation and told what they should have done. even keep them known what the other guy is doing).


It once so happened that two pilots saw each other in 30nm distance and immediately flew away. That was in radar control area. What's the explanation for this? It was later known that the ATCO was sleeping! And Mumbai ATC has often witnessed English language problems.


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Bhargavi wrote:


  And Mumbai ATC has often witnessed English language problems. bhargavi  



Can't even imagine the situation in non-english speaking countries like in Latin America and a bit of Europe.


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European skies u got me wrong bhargavi the 1 i spoke was somewhere around 1986 and between some ukraine and saudi carrier over indian skies


This happened on 12 NOV 1996, between Saudi Arabian and Air Kazakhstan. Here's the incident report...http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19961112-0&lang=en


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That was in July 02, 2002- mid-air collision between Russian jetliner- Tupolev 154 by Russian Bashkirian airlines and the other was a cargo plane.


This infact happened on 01 JUL 2002 between Bashkirian Airlines and DHL. Here's the incident report for this one...http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20020701-0&lang=en


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