Just how stupid do you have to be?? (Marine One security breach)

[Grumman]

@Equipoise

I know nothing about this stuff, but if they have the avionics information, couldn’t a bright and inventive electronics/computer guru possibly find some way to control the helicopter from the ground via remote control?

Not unless engineers have being swallowing a boatload of stupid pills, or there’s some reason I’m unaware of to implement such a vulnerability. A more likely use would be to identify Marine One’s physical vulnerabilities - how well armoured it is, what sort of countermeasures it carries, that sort of thing.

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

@Grumman

A more likely use would be to identify Marine One’s physical vulnerabilities - how well armoured it is, what sort of countermeasures it carries, that sort of thing.

Which in itself is scary as all hell, given how many different players would like nothing better than to off Obama.

[Merijeek]

@Equipoise

I know nothing about this stuff, but if they have the avionics information, couldn’t a bright and inventive electronics/computer guru possibly find some way to control the helicopter from the ground via remote control? I have nightmares about that sort of thing causing the helicopter to crash.

I’m trying to work a “24” joke in here somewhere, but it’s just not coming.

-Joe

[Captain_Carrot]

@Equipoise

I know! I thought that was interesting too. Plus the fact that Wesley Clark is an adviser to that company. Why isn’t he in the Obama Administration anyway?

Because he can’t be Secretary of Defense for another year and a bit, I think.

[Fear_Itself]

Turns out, it wasn’t the specs for Marine One after all:

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said the government was notified about the data disclosure last summer and fully investigated it. He stressed that the data were not classified and did not involve the V-3 helicopter used to carry the president.

Instead, the documents pertained to the VH-60, built by Sikorsky Aircraft, and it is used to carry White House staff and guests.

[Tully_Mars]

@Equipoise

I know nothing about this stuff, but if they have the avionics information, couldn’t a bright and inventive electronics/computer guru possibly find some way to control the helicopter from the ground via remote control? I have nightmares about that sort of thing causing the helicopter to crash.

No.

[Jimmy_Joe_Meager]

@Sitnam

You’re worried someone will boost Marine One?

Well… they do leave a spare set of keys in the glove box.

[Darth_Sensitive]

@Jimmy_Joe_Meager

Well… they do leave a spare set of keys in the glove box.

Can’t be. Might mess up those dress white gloves.

It’s under the back bumper.