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The problem is not social engineering.
There appears to be some kind of radar spoofing going on.
This is waaaay more serious than it may appear.
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There appears to be some kind of radar spoofing going on.
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A few days ago more than one person posted that it is not *spoofing* — they gave a name for it, funny word, and said it is nothing new. ????
The problem is not social engineering.
There appears to be some kind of radar spoofing going on.
This is waaaay more serious than it may appear.
Really? Okay, I’ll play along. Did they tamper with the tankers running lights? Did they also tamper with the Navy’s night vision goggles? What did the Navy’s men on watch see? I huge cargo ship with running lights can be seen for miles. Forget radar and riddle that.
You have to drop this idiotic and breathless conspiracy crap. It's poor training and derelection of duty. From the bridge of a ship you can see the mastheads of a large merchant at 20 nm. At night the loom of the lights is much further than that. You can easily see the whole ship at further than 10nm and the turning radius of a warship is something like 500 yds, meaning the diameter of a turning circle is 1/2 nm, plenty of maneuverability for any modestly competent deck officer to avoid a merchant on a straight course at moderate speed.
Umm, some of the same navigation lines used by our ICBM’s to get to their target... Would hate to ‘send off a nuke’ to Pyongyang and have it hit San Francisco... Best case someone is messing with international navigation system on a small scale. Worse case we’ve been totally disarmed.
“On 22 June, the US Maritime Administration filed a seemingly bland incident report. The master of a ship off the Russian port of Novorossiysk had discovered his GPS put him in the wrong spot – more than 32 kilometres inland, at Gelendzhik Airport.”
“After checking the navigation equipment was working properly, the captain contacted other nearby ships. Their AIS traces – signals from the automatic identification system used to track vessels – placed them all at the same airport. At least 20 ships were affected.”
I believe many of the electronic components such as circuit boards are manufactured in China these days. I suspect, though I don’t know how we could prove it definitively, that these boards include back doors which can be triggered by Chinese operatives, rendering them useless.