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    An aircraft cabin is a 'challenging environment' for a wireless LAN, but Boeing is confident that they can make it secure.

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    Before he starts work every day, Oscar Carranza places his hand in a biometric scanner that traces the contours of his palm and compares them to digital records in the airport's central database.

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