<p> This talk is not about someone on the ground firing a ray gun at a jet and bringing it down. This talk is about someone on the jet injecting EMP into the wiring system and causing great problems with the aviation and the black box. This talk will have at least ten video demos of device pulses and one of a surge protector, along with explanations of a Marx generator and a MOSFET charging circuit. Going green, fly by wire airplanes, robotic control trains, densely integrated systems… these are all realities of our daily environment. One problem is that all of these make our lives more susceptible to an EMP disruption. Other topics will include TWA 800, Tesla coils, Byzantine faults and the power grid. </p>
<p> <strong> Paul F. Renda </strong> started his career working on the IBM 360 and the PDP 11. He was an early advocate of using hacking software to check corporate data systems and has presented talks at the Computer Security Institute. Paul’s articles have appeared in <em> Info Security Magazine. </em> In 1995, Paul developed a defense against war dialers. He is currently a computer security analyst and futurist. </p>