GPS Spoofing
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bitchstewie

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67,225 posts

239 months

Sunday 13th August 2017
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I don't really know where this does belong but as this seems to be the closest we have to a "cools military stuff" forum this may be a good read

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2143499-ships...

stevesingo

5,035 posts

251 months

Sunday 13th August 2017
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GPS spoofing is almost as old as GPS.

Iraqis used it back in 2003 and Iran used in on the crew of HMS Cornwall.

The US Military does have measures to negate.

ccr32

1,983 posts

247 months

Sunday 13th August 2017
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Happened across vintage Brosnan Bond 'Tomorrow Never Dies' last night in a drunken stupor, within which the very same thing occurs. And that film was made in 1997.

Not suggesting that a Bond film is even close to reality, but if they were thinking about it 20 years ago then I'd be pretty sure such techniques have been in use for some time...

Simpo Two

92,658 posts

294 months

Sunday 13th August 2017
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Which is why you need a back-up - stars, sextants, etc.

Zad

13,005 posts

265 months

Sunday 13th August 2017
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A long way from being rocket science, a HackRF One can do this pretty much off the shelf for £230

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Computers-Accessories/G...
https://github.com/osqzss/gps-sdr-sim

It is a fairly basic software defined radio, with a bit of refinement it will easily come in under £100.

droopsnoot

14,622 posts

271 months

Monday 14th August 2017
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ccr32 said:
Happened across vintage Brosnan Bond 'Tomorrow Never Dies' last night in a drunken stupor, within which the very same thing occurs. And that film was made in 1997.

Not suggesting that a Bond film is even close to reality, but if they were thinking about it 20 years ago then I'd be pretty sure such techniques have been in use for some time...
That was the first thing that came into my head when I read the title of this thread.


Testaburger

3,974 posts

227 months

Monday 14th August 2017
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Amusing story from my experience a couple of years ago...

I'm an airline pilot based in Hong Kong. One of the things the aircraft navigation system does when you're setting up for the flight is reset it's position using latitude & longitude which we insert (for the inertial systems) which is then cross-checked with the GPS system. Any disagreement will cause an alert.

Anyhow, a couple of years ago, out of the blue, we started getting GPS position disagree alerts when heading past a certain area by the terminal, on the way to the runway. Said disagreement alerts would then clear as we moved on.

Turns out that the airport ground crew vehicles had recently been fitted with GPS trackers to monitor their efficiency as part of a shake-up to improve airport performance.

Not to be out-done, the ground workers just took GPS jammers to work with them. Purchased from the electronic markets in Kowloon. The area where the alerts was occurring was the break area for the guys - so a multitude of jammers was concentrated in a small area.

Good on 'em!