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Students Hijack $80 Million Superyacht With GPS Spoofing
mask.of.sanity writes "A team of university students have hijacked an $80 million superyacht using GPS spoofing without tripping alarms. The experiment (run with permission) saw the White Rose sail from Monaco to the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean. Faint GPS signals broadcast from a spoofing device slowly overpowered authentic signals allowing the students control over the yacht's navigational system."
It's still on the front page!
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/07/29/1929205/college-students-hijack-80-million-yacht-with-gps-signal-spoofing
see topic 3 times in what 4 days?
You have one job, editors. One job!
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/professor-spoofs-80m-superyachts-gps-receiver-on-the-high-seas
http://www.ae.utexas.edu/news/archive/2013-news-archive/humphreys-research-group-successfully-spoofs-an-80-million-yacht-at-sea
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/07/29/1929205/college-students-hijack-80-million-yacht-with-gps-signal-spoofing
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Anybody know what the fewest number of posts between the original and a dupe is?
This article is STILL ONTFRONT PAGE.
A yes, I am yelling.
Maybe?
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
Editors hijack Slashdot with front-page dupe posting. Film at 11.
As long as it reduces the number of stories about the "no such agency", all is good. Seriously, did you really think anyone was going to allow students to investigate real hacking opportunities?
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
No idiot, it's a trip.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Let's attach a tazer to each of the "editors", and hand out "tazer points" in addition to mod points using the same scheme. Apply same as usual moderation, only with more painful effects! I am quite confident this would remove the dupes in short time.
All in favor say "aye"!
Hey, I have a GED. Can I apply to be a Slashdot editor or am I over qualified?
How many hours did I spend at work reading Slashdot back in 2001-2003? I don't know, but it was a lot.
The stories were interesting, the comments were readable, and there was Oog the Opensource Caveman. Every once in a while there were pretty bad spelling mistakes in the stories and there was the occasional dupe, but never like this.
I know it won't actually happen, but I wish Rob and Jeff could come back.
Host: Good evening, I have with me Mr Arthur Frampton, who... Mr Frampton I understand that you, as it were have - well let me put it another way... I believe Mr Frampton that whereas most people... didn't we do this just now? Frampton: Er ... yes.
Host: Well why didn't you say so?
Frampton: I thought it was the continental version.
-- Make America hate again!
yeah it's true, seen it 3 times on slashdot.
Piloting a yacht by GPS alone is negligent at best or just plain stupid at worst.
At least a depth finder and a compass should be involved, also if you are in the mediterian sea landmarks can and should be watched. Heck even comming into range of a certain coastal radio station is something you usually watch.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Students Hijack $80 Million Superyacht With GPS Spoofing, The experiment (run with permission) saw the White Rose sail from Monaco to the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean
Slashdot: News for the amnesiac, stuff that mattered.
And Slashdot is reporting every revolution.
This is real news? I remember Iran doing this to an American drone, its not hard and who cares?
Piloting a yacht by GPS alone is negligent at best or just plain stupid at worst.
Kind of like having the only comment about the story rather than about the fact that it's the third time in under a week it's been posted? ;-)
The Captain of the superyacht admits that he cannot read a map. He grew up using GPS for everything and never thought he would need to develop real navigational skills.
Have gnu, will travel.
In consideration of many drones now using GPS to navigate and Iran already claims to have "captured" a United States drone using faked GPS signals. I would hope that the corporations handling GPS systems be figuring out ways of detecting spoofed GPS signals.
FYI - Crew of a $80M yacht relying solely on GPS to navigate? Seriously? What ever happened to paper charts, sextants, taking sightings and looking at radar returns from land masses? The U.S. Navy .... ran aground in the Philippines, Hawaii, and ....
Just ignore me, I am not saying anything anymore :-(
Has anyone else noticed the GPS spoof in Benson, AZ.
When traveling west on I-10 through Benson AZ, the GPS will show the car drifting north, then when approaching Dark Star Road, the GPS will present the route correction to turn left onto Dark Star Road to get back to I-10.
This spoof does not seen to happen when traveling east on I-10. Dark Star Road does not exist south of I-10.
Yes, I am very much familiar with the connection between Benson, AZ and Dark Star (one of the best low budget sifi movie ever made!).
I was going to buy a yacht like that but now I'm having second thoughts.