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GPS Spoofing With $3000 Worth of Equipment and a Laptop
First time accepted submitter svartbjorn writes "Todd Humphreys and a team from the University of Texas proved the concept that a terrorist could take over the navigation of a ship or even a plane, making it appear to the crew that the ship was moving along a straight line course when in fact it was changing course under the control of the device. This raises some serious issues for this being used for terrorist purposes."
"Actually no, fuck the terrorists, they're third world noobs living in mud huts and the best they could do in 12 years of trying realyl hard is to hijack a few planes with knives. You have more to fear from your own government than any terrorist."
And that's assuming, of course, that they really did it to begin with. I'm not about to claim otherwise, but the evidence is actually pretty thin and there is a lot of counter-evidence. That's just the truth.
But anyway... I think really the bigger question is: who ever really doubted this could be done? All it takes to spoof a radio signal is a stronger signal... and GPS is a pretty damned low-power signal.
Of course, you do have to do the actual spoofing... that's where the $3000 comes in. But I mean, it has always been technically feasible. I guess they're just saying it's cheaper now.
Gimme a break. "I'm not about to claim otherwise, but the evidence is actually pretty thin..." gets modded as "flamebait"???
I just love how there are still people who mod people down for telling the truth, just because it's not politically correct. I thought the "politically correct" fad died out more than 5 years ago.