In-Flight Wi-Fi: Victim Of Terrorism Scare?

Gizmodo is reporting how the recent bomb scares will likely have the unintended consequence of delaying the rollout of in-flight wi-fi, a method that would seem to be woefully behind routine as it is. The challenge? Wi-fi implies its less complicated to set off a bomb remotely. Per Gizmodo:

The difficulty, according to Roland Alford of explosives consultancy firm Alford Technologies, is that the positive aspects in-flight cellphone and Wi-Fi tech delivers for your average traveler could give a person with malevolent intentions a way [to detonate a bomb]: “In-flight Wi-Fi gives a bomber plenty of possibilities for contacting a gadget on an aircraft,” Alford says. “Even if ordinary cellphone connections are blocked, it would let a voice-above-internet connection to attain a handset.”

Come on, there is acquired to be a way around this? Secure networks, in-flight IT plane marshals . . . bomb screening? If I’m forced to watch “Mamma Mia” on the plane alternatively of browsing the web or checking my electronic mail, then the terrorists have in reality genuinely won.