Enter the OR Black Box, developed by Toronto-­based surgeon Teodor Grantcharov. Just as an airplane’s black box records data throughout a flight to keep track of anything that goes wrong and ...

In the case of closed-source software, the white hats arguably have the offsetting advantage that they at least can see the source code, and peek inside the black box, while the attackers cannot.

After I watched a rough cut of "Crash of Flight 111" here at the NOVA offices, a colleague who watched it with me asked, "Why don't they just beam black-box data in real time to ground stations ...

(1) See black box testing and Black Box Corporation. (2) An electronic device that records airplane flight data. Officially a "flight data recorder," the unit is highly protected and can emit a ...