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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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[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 123 points 7 months ago

The planes first received spoofed GPS signals, meaning signals designed to fool planes’ systems into thinking they are flying miles away from their real location. One of the aircraft almost flew into Iranian airspace without permission

Tomorrow Never Dies continues to be bizarrely relevant.

[-] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 17 points 7 months ago

Is that the one with Jonathan Pryce as the villain? That was a good one

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Johnathan Pryce as the mad, egocentric head of a mass media and tech empire with an inordinate amount of reach and influence on the world stage, who is chiefly concerned with becoming the sole source of media in a post-CCP China.

Which sounds funny and ridiculous in a 1997 spy movie, but in the last 20 years, we've seen just how much power mass media companies wield, how they can manipulate sizable percentages of a population, and how being the exclusive source of news for an entire country (China, no less) would give a media mogul incredible power and influence.

[-] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 8 points 7 months ago

I'm not nervous, you're nervous

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

So basically the plot of citizen Kane with some tweaks

[-] Womble@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I must have missed the bit of Citizen Kane where he spoofs a British warship into sailing into Chinese waters then attacks both sides from a stealth submarine.

[-] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 2 points 7 months ago

Director's cut

[-] GenesisJones@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

That was a badass videogame on PS1. Core memory unlocked

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