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Students Hijack $80 Million Superyacht With GPS Spoofing

Posted by Unknown on from the going-back-to-star-charts dept.

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."

18 of 75 comments (clear)

  1. Look familiar? by XanC · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

    1. Re:Look familiar? by Pseudonym+Authority · · Score: 3, Informative

      Also, http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/07/26/2344215/gps-spoofing-with-3000-worth-of-equipment-and-a-laptop . God damn, it looks like this story just isn't going to stop showing up until every ``editor'' has had their turn.

    2. Re:Look familiar? by rudy_wayne · · Score: 2

      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

      And it was a stupid, boring story the first 2 times it was posted.

    3. Re:Look familiar? by sjames · · Score: 5, Funny

      College students with $3000 in equipment hijack 'News for Nerds'.

  2. wtf /. stop being shitty by maliqua · · Score: 5, Informative

    see topic 3 times in what 4 days?

  3. Record? by orson_of_fort_worth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anybody know what the fewest number of posts between the original and a dupe is?

    1. Re:Record? by JWSmythe · · Score: 2

      I've seen a dupe come immediately after the initial post, about an hour later.

      It's something you just get used to. Complaining about them is like complaining about traffic, or lines at the DMV. They happen. There isn't anything you can do about it.

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  4. Do the editors even read this site? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This article is STILL ONTFRONT PAGE.
    A yes, I am yelling.

    1. Re:Do the editors even read this site? by CannonballHead · · Score: 3, Funny

      You're yelling so loudly, you seemed to have missed a few letrs.

  5. Re:Dupe by Professr3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Given your use of the grocers' apostrophe, you're clearly one of the readers.

  6. This just in... by SpaceGhost · · Score: 4, Funny

    Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

  7. Solution to the dupes by CoolGopher · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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"!

  8. Almost the same damn title! by JayRott · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hey, I have a GED. Can I apply to be a Slashdot editor or am I over qualified?

    1. Re:Almost the same damn title! by Buchenskjoll · · Score: 2

      I don't know what you are talking about, but GED means goat in Danish. If you have a goat, I think you are qualified.

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  9. Re:Bring back Rob and Jeff by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 2

    Every once in a while there were pretty bad spelling mistakes in the stories and there was the occasional dupe, but never like this.

    This is a definite case of rose-colored glasses. CmdrTaco posted dupes so often that it became a running joke. A common request was to add a feature to stop the editors from posting a story containing the same link as a previous story.

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  10. Thats why a skipper should not rely on GPS alone by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 2

    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.

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  11. Time for a new Slashdot slogan by dark-br · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot: News for the amnesiac, stuff that mattered.

  12. Modern day ... by PPH · · Score: 2

    ... version of The Train?

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