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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We need a backup for GPS. LORAN should never have been shut down.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are 3 of them. Galileo, Glonass and Beidou