Air Marshals’ Secret Communication Weapon
By Kim Zetter
Wired; May 8, 2009 7:14 pm
Excerpt: If you’re a U.S. Air Marshal patrolling the friendly skies, you’ll want to communicate discreetly with fellow on-board marshals, airport ground crew, cockpit crew and flight attendants if you need to thwart an attack.
You might also want to tap into the plane’s digital system to know where you are at any time, how far the nearest airport is and how much fuel you have left on the plane.
To do this, you’ll want something like the Federal Air Marshal Service Communication System (FAMSCOM), an application that runs on any off-the-shelf wireless PDA.
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By Kim Zetter
Wired; May 8, 2009 7:14 pm
Excerpt: If you’re a U.S. Air Marshal patrolling the friendly skies, you’ll want to communicate discreetly with fellow on-board marshals, airport ground crew, cockpit crew and flight attendants if you need to thwart an attack.
You might also want to tap into the plane’s digital system to know where you are at any time, how far the nearest airport is and how much fuel you have left on the plane.
To do this, you’ll want something like the Federal Air Marshal Service Communication System (FAMSCOM), an application that runs on any off-the-shelf wireless PDA.
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Who is allowed to become an Air Marshal? From an investigation done last year by the nonprofit journalism group ProPublica.
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