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Aviation Security

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     When you go to an airport nowadays, most of us will go through a TSA screening due to somewhat recent events that heightened security and caused a loss of life as well as trust in airliners. In order to regain trust and keep future tragedies from happening, airports implemented several layers of security. These security layers do what they are there to do, protect innocent people from terrorist attacks on airliners and at airports. But, what if the terrorist never went to the airport and devised a plan to cause havoc that required them to be there?       Due to advances in technology in aircraft, attacks are able to be carried out from the ground, miles away from an airport, if the terrorist is ab le to get their hands on the technology required. Some systems they are able to attack that are not attached to computers on the aircraft are  reservation systems, flight traffic management systems, access control management systems, departure cont...