In light of the recent plane crash in Pakistan, reports suggest that it will take 6-7 months to decode the black box.
The company that made the black box surely knows how to decrypt their encryption, so why would it take so long?
Also, assuming the encyrption is super-complicated, what sensitive data would warrant such encryption? Is it just voice recordings, or something more?
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this is bad reporting. The FDR will be repaired and all the data will be pulled. it’s raw data, but from that they can build a pretty good picture of what was happening to the aircraft’s systems leading up to the crash. That data will be compared with crash data from other aircraft and compared with findings from air accident investigators who have examined the wreckage and any eye witnesses/survivors/video footage and the Cockpit Voice recorder which has all the pilot and copilot’s conversations right up until they die.
At the 6-7 month stage the press release will be “we’re pretty sure the plane crashed because of XYZ reasons”
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