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After having once again been delayed for two hours in Newark, because “TSA had orders to search every third person” (sigh), I am glad to see that someone is thinking about approaches to aircraft security that go beyond the compulsive confiscating of nail clippers. (HT Engadet).

[The innovation comes] in the form of a software platform being developed by a consortium of 30-odd European businesses and research institutes that would make an aircraft’s systems completely unusable in the event of a cockpit breach — control of the plane would be passed to officials on the ground — even if one of the hijackers was among the 1337est of hackers.

Unless, of course, (i) hijackers pry open the cockpit doors with their contraband nail clippers, while (ii) another team breaks into ground control. Sounds like another bad day for Jack Bauer.

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