Ken Clements wrote:
>
> Brian D Williams wrote:
> >
> > Indeed now that the cat is out of the bag this is unlikely to work
> > in the future, and I'm sure additional safeguards will be added.
> > (maybe a bulkhead between pilots and passengers).
>
> I expect you will never see the door open ever again. One fast thing to
> do is to require the crew to be locked in before any passengers are
> allowed to go near the plane, and to keep them locked in until every
> passenger is off the plane and barred from returning. And, yes, they
> will beef up that bulkhead.
The next group of terrorists that tries to take over a plane will be
ripped to shreds by the bare hands of their alleged hostages no matter
what weapons they have. We may very well have seen the last plane
hijacking, or the last successful hijacking at any rate. In fact, the
last successful hijacking would be the flight that crashed into the
Pentagon. On the fourth flight, the passengers and their cellphones
learned that the rules had changed, knew they were going to die, and were
willing to die earlier to prevent the hijackers from destroying another
target.
UNLESS all the terrorists need to do is smuggle one man and one knife into
the cockpit, then close the armored door and pilot the plane into the
Capitol building as the passengers scream and futilely claw at the
bulkhead.
Maybe beefing up the airlock isn't such a great idea.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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