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GPS Spoofing With $3000 Worth of Equipment and a Laptop

Posted by timothy on from the james-bond-villains-go-frugal dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Gyros by the_other_chewey · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is why ships still have gyros.

    So the only vessels at risk are those with 100% vegetarian crews.
    It's probably not too much of an issue then...