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Researchers Find Crippling Flaws In Global GPS

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 9, 2012 @01:59PM from the where-in-the-world dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Researchers have developed attacks capable of crippling Global Positioning System infrastructure critical to the navigation of a host of military and civilian technologies including planes, ships and unamed drones. The novel remote attacks can be made against consumer and professional-grade receivers using $2500 worth of custom-built equipment. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Coherent Navigation detailed the attacks in a paper. (pdf)"

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so why don't we just name the drones? by holophrastic · 2012-12-09 14:09 · Score: 4, Funny

heh, "unnamed" drones.
Re:Misleading Summary by ne0n · 2012-12-09 14:38 · Score: 5, Funny

If it was news you'd see it on Carver Media first. We saw this attack used in 1997 to start open hostilities between China and Britain. Luckily we had a man in the area and he managed to stop it before anybody went nuclear.

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Re:Well, duh. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-09 16:05 · Score: 5, Funny

A new software attack to disable GPS functionality? - Apple maps was released months ago.
Re:Misleading Summary by KeithIrwin · 2012-12-09 21:15 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm pretty certain that this is how Ian has intercepted and captured at least two US drones
Who is this drone-intercepting and capturing Ian ?
Well, as you likely know, most bagpipes have two or three drones, and Ian is a common Scottish name, so I'm pretty sure he's a Scotsman who managed to hijack some American bagpipes in transit. Clearly, the US needs to protect them better when they're transiting through the UK.