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 UKs 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 receivers behaviour in the Black Sea incident was much like during the controlled attacks my team conducted, says Humphreys.
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We had rotating keys before this, the problem is that you need a high clearance to have one. Hell, I almost got wrote up for seeing a keying mechanism open. I was like, I can’t help my eyes.
Fixed it for ya.
I read the entire Navy report on the Fitzgerald.
In it was nothing but praise for ALL the crew. The professionalism, the bravery, the valor, the embodiment of their training in a time of disaster.
Calmly filing down the passageway (hallway) out of the flooded area in waste deep to neck deep water without panicking.
Some of the first sailors to arrive at the ladder to escape the flooding of the compartment, helped others to escape waiting to the very last minute, until they were submerged themselves, to climb to safety. Even then, reaching into the flooded compartment hoping to grab some trapped sailor, WHICH THEY SUCCESSFULLY DID!
This is the same crew who were derelict in there duties on watch, absent from their stations, failing to perform their jobs while underway.
This same exemplary crew that performed heroically under extreme stress and life threatening danger, acting in full accordance with their training, were slough offs when it came to performing their assigned duties? It couldn’t have been just one slough off crewman, it would have had to have been an entire watch of slough offs.
This would seem to be “impossible” because it is IMPOSSIBLE!!!
Our navy, FOUR ships now have been targeted (that we know of because of collisions), is under some sort of cyber attack. Hacking?, EMP?, something.
The Navy can not, will not, admit to such a disastrous occurrence.
I am amazed at how gullible so many of you are in believing in this supposed misconduct and how quick you are to throw our sailors under their ships.
I am PROUD of our Sailors and I am ashamed for those who doubt them.
PING !!!
The warships involved in those cases are fast, nimble, and bristling with multiple systems to detect and track nearby ships. The freighters/tankers that hit them are mammoth, slow, and make really long arcs while turning. How would one of these sneak up on one of our warships ships and then outmaneuver it to affect a collision?
Maybe use one of these Sextant now and then.
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Hell I was a Scout, and we never used blackout drive. In fact all of our lights were covered up.
But my uncle was in the Navy for 20 some odd years, and he once told me about darkened ship where there were no lights or transmitters on to give away their position.
” How would one of these sneak up on one of our warships ships and then outmaneuver it to affect a collision?”
EXACTLY!!! They couldn’t, to a fully operational Navy Vessel.
They were “hacked” and/or “attacked”. The ONLY “logical” explanation.
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