At 06:59 PM 5/10/2002 -0700, you wrote: >On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 05:32 PM, Steve Schear wrote: > >>At 05:06 PM 5/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: >> >>> > Black-and-white images captured by the cameras will be fed to screens in >>> > the cockpit via the cables used to distribute pictures to seat-back >>> > video screens. Although only some lights will have cameras, potential >>> > terrorists will not know which ones. >>> >>>Huh. Easily defeated. The images won't be watched, >>>as the cabin crew have better things to do. By the >>>time the plane has been taken, the best they will >>>know is that it is going on. >>> >>>Then, out comes the big roll of duck tape and slap >>>slap slap, all lights are out. Special points for >>>opaque tape. >> >>A less observable jamming means is to just bring a key chain penlight >>aboard and aim it at the light. If the light has a suction cup mount it >>can be mounted to the arm of the chair. For more clandestine use a two >>position switch on the light could activate an IR laser/led, shining >>through the same lens, for light/dark cabin situations. > >Jamming the camera or overloading it is itself a tell.
Depends on the overload failure mode. Many SS camera will simply appear to be full white/black on overload. Same as a malfunction. >Knowing the exact location and geometry of a camera lens makes it feasible >to spoof the scene by placing a fixed image below the camera. Unless the >camera has a zoom, which is unlikely, a simple affine transformation of a >real "lap" is enough. Make it of a lap covered with a blanket and then >even the lack of movement will not be a tell. I can the MI music playing in the background already. steve
