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Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht

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Re: Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht

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That's cool! Reminds me of the way the Iranian most likely got control over a US drone a couple of years back. They jammed communication signals and faked GPS data when automatic "go back to home base" landing procedure kicked in. http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/iran-hacked-...

How can they fake the gps signal, the military uses encrypted GPS?

I imagine if signal was jammed and only C/A codes were rebroadcast the drone would use those instead of nothing.

edit: Assuming that navigation was relying only on GPS

Re: Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht

#102

That's cool! Reminds me of the way the Iranian most likely got control over a US drone a couple of years back. They jammed communication signals and faked GPS data when automatic "go back to home base" landing procedure kicked in. http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/iran-hacked-...

"the way the Iranian most likely got control over a US drone"

That is a very bold claim which I believe requires far more citation than you have provided.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...

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