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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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[–] grandkaiser@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The military didn't design it for civilian use. That's really all there is to it. The commenter I was replying to made it sound like theres an easy solution here. There isn't.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm the commenter you originally replied to. If the US military wanted unspoofable GPS available to everyone then it would be available to everyone. They only want the public to have unencrypted GPS, so that's all we get.

[–] grandkaiser@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The military is as concerned with civilian gps as much as they are with anything else that isn't military-related: not their issue to solve. They won't stop anyone from using encrypted gps. They really won't. The only branch in the us that actively tries to prevent public encryption is the NSA. (Even then, they wouldn't block something like gps). For the record, I'm a security engineer (DDI, private sector), previously worked for the DOD, and used to work in satcom.