New "spoofing" attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is "highly significant" for airline safety.

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.

  • chuckEnglish
    61·
    7 months ago

    First Glonass is a mess, missing quite a few operational satellites Galileo is just ramping up.

    Interms of what is broadcast they still work on the same principle satellites broadcast time receiver does something like a linear least squares fit to estimate position, and time.

    Mixing all the sources and doing a linear least squares like fit means the bad guy has to spoof more signals, and this system will be more robust but it is susceptible to the same attack just ramped up a bit

    • oatscoop@midwest.socialEnglish
      131·
      7 months ago

      Just equip the airliners with modified AGM-88 HARM missiles to deal with the jammers.

      • chuckEnglish
        31·
        7 months ago

        Yea then they just start shooting down everything randomly,

        And really want needs to be modified on the missiles? Sounds more like an airliner issue to me…

        • Daxtron2@startrek.websiteEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          Sounds like they should remove the explosive part before putting into an airliner but maybe that’s just me