Posted on 08/21/2017 4:50:22 PM PDT by oxcart
Reports of satellite navigation problems in the Black Sea suggest that Russia may be testing a new system for spoofing GPS .
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.
While the incident is not yet confirmed, experts think this is the first documented use of GPS misdirection – a spoofing attack that has long been warned of but never been seen in the wild.
Until now, the biggest worry for GPS has been it can be jammed by masking the GPS satellite signal with noise. While this can cause chaos, it is also easy to detect. GPS receivers sound an alarm when they lose the signal due to jamming. Spoofing is more insidious: a false signal from a ground station simply confuses a satellite receiver. “Jamming just causes the receiver to die, spoofing causes the receiver to lie,” says consultant David Last, former president of the UK’s Royal Institute of Navigation.
Todd Humphreys, of the University of Texas at Austin, has been warning of the coming danger of GPS spoofing for many years. In 2013, he showed how a superyacht with state-of-the-art navigation could be lured off-course by GPS spoofing. “The receiver’s behaviour in the Black Sea incident was much like during the controlled attacks my team conducted,” says Humphreys.
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Was it “Darkened Ship” by chance?
In a one-off situation, I would agree with you. The fact that it’s happened twice in a short time...I have to admit my spidey sense is tingling.
If it happens again, I think we will all need to reevaluate.
Oh for heavenns sake, someone could just look out the window and say “ Hey, look, there’s a ship!
Ships should immediately return to navigation methods we used 50 years ago. If a ship can’t navigate by the stars and with charts, a compass and clock, then it has no business being out of port.
It’s called “meaconing,” not spoofing.
Troll.
Gps spoofing might put ships on a reef or on the rocks. It won’t cause 2 ships to ram each other
But can they handle the requisite trigonometry?
We just assuming everything bad is Russian now?
The Chinese would be way more plausible.
“someone could just look out the window “
There were 300 sailors on that ship. Apparently no one was looking out the window. THAT is the problem. Why not?
Your position is that in 8 years Obama and his band of hyenas were unable to give Russia everything they needed (including and via Snowden)?
Tactical blackout drive, ‘cept on a big steel boat.
They stopped teaching celestial navigation at the Academy, ROTC and OCS some years ago. It is my understanding that they will start teaching it again or may already have done so.
The way things are going in the US lately, I’d say the communist takeover has already occurred from within. Angry blogging has been the only response so far.
I was thinking the same thing. I can’t believe it took 13 posts for someone to raise this point.
Everyone has become too complacent in navigation.
Everything is just fine. The trans gender bathrooms on the USS McCain remained undamaged in the collision.
it is a rotating key.
I am sure they gave it to them, but the key changed.
Math is Hard!
No, the ship is always darkened at night. that is setting the light traps etc..
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