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Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do(www.vice.com)

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Commercial Flights Are Experiencing ‘Unthinkable’ GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do::New “spoofing” attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is “highly significant” for airline safety.

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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We need a backup for GPS. LORAN should never have been shut down.

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Dimand@lemmy.world
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I can’t see how omega and similar were not just as susceptible to this type of attack. Active outside in positioning almost always has this vulnerability.

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MaggiWuerze@feddit.de
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There are 3 of them. Galileo, Glonass and Beidou

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