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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. Gyros by BetterSense · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is why ships still have gyros. GPS is too handy not to use, but I'm pretty sure most large oceangoing vessels also have navigation gyros. The question then is, what happens when GPS gets spoofed...does the system/crew assume the GPS is broken or the gyro broken?

  2. Which signal? by KDN · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What they don't say is whether he is spoofing the CA signal, which is publically known and documented, the P signal, which is encrypted, and best I can recall, is not publically known, or the WAIS signal, which I have no bleeping idea.