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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thus the point of the spoofing. A drone will be moving much slower than 300 m/s, so spoofing GPS would be an attempt to force it off-course.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ah, I see, I misunderstood what you meant