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Eugene

(62,648 posts)
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 08:16 PM Apr 2019

The Russians are screwing with the GPS system to send bogus navigation data to thousands of ships

Source: Business Insider

The Russians are screwing with the GPS system to send bogus navigation data to thousands of ships

Jim Edwards 6h

On May 15, 2018, under a sunny sky, Russian President Vladimir Putin drove a bright orange truck in a convoy of construction vehicles for the opening of the Kerch Bridge from Russia to Crimea. At 11 miles long, it is now the longest bridge in either Europe or Russia.

As Putin drove across the bridge, something weird happened. The satellite navigation systems in the control rooms of more than 24 ships anchored nearby suddenly started displaying false information about their location. Their GPS systems told their captains they were anchored more than 65 kilometres away — on land, at the Anapa Airport.

This was not a random glitch, according to the Centre for Advanced Defense, a security think tank. It was a deliberate plan to make it difficult for anyone nearby to track or navigate around the presence of Putin, C4AD says.

The Russians have started hacking into the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) on a mass scale in order to confuse thousands of ships and airplanes about where they are, according to a study of false GNSS signals by C4AD.

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The jamming, blocking, or spoofing of GNSS signals by the Russian government is "more indiscriminate and persistent, larger in scope, and more geographically diverse than previous public reporting suggested," according to the Weekly Intelligence Summary from Digital Shadows, a cyber security monitoring service.

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Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/gnss-hacking-spoofing-jamming-russians-screwing-with-gps-2019-4
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The Russians are screwing with the GPS system to send bogus navigation data to thousands of ships (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2019 OP
Time to nuke their satellites Historic NY Apr 2019 #1
And Airplanes ? StTimofEdenRoc Apr 2019 #2
This is serious stuff. defacto7 Apr 2019 #3
Just like they were screwing with us and hacking into our power grids not so long ago.... FM123 Apr 2019 #4
Time to back up with the old school. Delmette2.0 Apr 2019 #5
Yes zipplewrath Apr 2019 #7
Yeah, that maybe a problem. Delmette2.0 Apr 2019 #8
Maybe that explains the time when I went to Tacoma Doreen Apr 2019 #6

Delmette2.0

(4,261 posts)
5. Time to back up with the old school.
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 09:04 PM
Apr 2019

Does the majority of military and commercial ships know how to calculate latitude and longitude?

Delmette2.0

(4,261 posts)
8. Yeah, that maybe a problem.
Wed Apr 17, 2019, 12:30 PM
Apr 2019

Just a few weeks ago a plane leaving London went north instead of southeast. I am amazed that no one in the cockpit knew something was wrong.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
6. Maybe that explains the time when I went to Tacoma
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 09:26 PM
Apr 2019

to find Crystal Voyage and my Garmin took me to a small empty field.

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