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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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[โ€“] Dettweiler42@lemmyonline.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But in this case, they're not. Plus, the crew are going to be the ones determining if their VOR/DME makes sense or not.

[โ€“] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We don't know that they aren't spoofing VOR/DME as well. We might be seeing reports from affected aircraft, rather than specifically targeted aircraft.