Everything Eighth Grade

I read an article about a man, named Hugo Teso, who invented an app that could control an airplane. At the Hack in the Box security summit in Amsterdam, Hugo Teso said he spent three years developing a series of codes that could hack a airplanes security software and all it needed to run was an Android phone. He calls this app PlaneSploit. Teso showed how it worked on a flight simulator. It has the ability to change the speed, lights in the cabin, what’s on the display screen, altitude, direction, and possibly the destination. Teso claims that “Current security systems don’t have strong enough authentication methods to make sure commands are coming from a legitament source.” He said he developed it in a way that it only works in virtual simulations not on the real thing. Teso said that he has contacted the companies whose systems he’s exploited and they are working on the problems.

I thought that what Hugo Teso made was very interesting; that he could use his skills to help make air-traffic safer. I also think it’s kind of scary that someone can develop an app that could cause a lot of danger to the airplane and the people on it. It’s crazy how technology has come this far. It’s scary, though, that it could be used for controlling the plane and I hope that the air companies work very hard at beating these codes that can be put into apps.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/11/tech/mobile/phone-hijack-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t5

From our senate session I was kind of surprised how all the “small” jobs worked with the “big” jobs to create our country; you couldn’t do certain things without having other things done first. Some of the things that seemed not as important really did make a difference in how our country worked and how it would continue to work.

I learned that our class can really work together to bring everything together and we need each other to work things out. I also learned that in our government they need everybody with all different jobs to work. You can’t just work with certain people, certain jobs. For example: you can’t do banking without there being income from other jobs, you can’t do roads without the explorers, you can’t decide where to put certain industries without knowing the capitol or you can’t figure out what taxes are needed without knowing about the roads and the army.

I have to say some of my favorite parts of the senate session were coming to an answer that most others liked and some of the job presentations. I also kind of liked some of the debates, just because we worked together to figure out what to do for that piece of the country.