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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."

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  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 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?

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

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

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

    Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

  6. 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"!

  7. 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?

  8. 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.

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

    Slashdot: News for the amnesiac, stuff that mattered.