Scientists succeed in spoofing GPS signals [receiver tracks, modifies, & retransmits signals]

TechRadar ^ | September 22, 2008 | Mark Harris

[driftdiver]

Thankfully the discourse is usually more rational than it seems to be tonight.

Have any other offensive statements or insults in your bag o tricks?

[AFreeBird]

If I need to, I usually just look up the address on a map before heading out. No need for a compass in the city. But the car has a rudimentary one in the RV mirror.

[driftdiver]

“If I need to, I usually just look up the address on a map before heading out. No need for a compass in the city. “

They work great in cars. Easy to find specific locations or reroute around accidents. I used to look up directions and take printed maps. GPS is certainly safer than trying to hold a map or printed directions.

Of course compasses work in certain situations and their signals aren’t blocked by heavy forests.

[AndyTheBear]

So it wasn’t Ted Kennedy’s fault after all.

[SandRat]

Heck the USNA even considered dropping teaching how to use a Sextant serval years back but then the GPS hic-cuped and they changed their minds real fast.

[SandRat]

Hand crank analog FDC on the BBs were good for 35 nautical mile shoots of a 16” Naval Gun.

[meyer]

"GPS is woven into our technology infrastructure, just like the power grid or the water system," said Professor Kintner, director of the Cornell GPS Laboratory. "If it were attacked, there would be a serious impact."

My Gawd... We'd have to use .... gasp .... MAPS!!

[dalereed]

“However there are features of GPS (implemented in safety critical units such as those used in aircraft but not the low-cost consumer ones - yet)”

How many in the general public are willing to pay over $2,000 for a simple unit in their car.

Personally I don’t mind the expense of aircraft units because I value an equal number of takeoffs and landings!

[Ellendra]

Beware the Atmos System!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6AaZ2qsnkE

[PA Engineer]

Add one of these to the compass and map.

[Glock19C]

I am an instrument rated private-pilot and this kind of thing is not what you want to be thinking about while flying in the clouds. We come to rely on GPS more and more nowdays with ground-based navigation becoming less frequently used. Of course, I've been too broke to fly for the last 6 to 9 months so who knows when or if I'll get back into the air anyway.

[LexBaird]

I shot me an azimuth the other day. Them’s good eatin’.