It is a great idea to monitor the inbound and outbound public and private Internet traffic (IP packets) of commercial airliners without a court order. Via Wired.
Commercial jetliners need to develop their own red-flagging monitoring tools to make sure that their 777 jumbo jet doesn’t become a zombie or slave.
All you need to do when a passenger signs in is add a legal line or two to the service agreement stating this intrusion in the name of safety. You can choose to use the service or not.
Private entities really need to develop their own digital Intelligence teams, maybe an offshoot of their InfoSec teams.
Hotels, casinos, airliners, passenger trains, and cruiseliners are being wired to be hot-spots and in the age of terrorism and in an age where we must balance convenience with foolhardiness, we must also realize that the Department of Homeland Security considers hotels, casinos, airliners, passenger trains, and cruiseliners to be amongst the top of the list of desireable terrorist targets.
The government is too steeped in red tape and bureaucracy. It is important that the boards of the hotel, casino, airliner, passenger train, and cruiseliner industry take some personal responsibility for the associated vulnerabilities of opening up these targets to always-on Wi-Fi networks.
It will be the men and women of the private sector INFOSEC world who will be able to protect you, not the FCC.
