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.

  • thehatfox@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This sounds rather dangerous. GPS was originally opened up to civilian use for the purpose of keeping flights on course, after the disaster of Korean Air Flight 007 straying into Soviet airspace and being shot down back in the 1980s.

    I can’t understand what is to be gained by deliberately trying to knock civilian airliners off course.

    • onlinepersona@programming.dev
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      7 months ago

      Holy shit, that really happened? Just finished watching “For All Mankind” and recognized some events, but had no idea this one was real.

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      7 months ago

      I can’t understand what is to be gained by deliberately trying to knock civilian airliners off course.

      You don’t deal with terrorists, do you?