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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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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If their isn't then there's a big problem with implementing that now, which would require a retrofit of every single GPS system currently in use and likely a replacement of all GPS satellites

Edit: I'm slightly mistaken, the military uses encryption but they don't have that open for public use.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would hope whoever designed the satellites had the foresight to allow remote software updates.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

They're talking about the millions of receivers around the world, not the satellites.

[–] Restaldt@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Nah we just need a satellite mechanic astronaut

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Software updates become useless if you hit hardware limitations