New "spoofing" attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is "highly significant" for airline safety.

Commercial Flights Are Experiencing ‘Unthinkable’ GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do::New “spoofing” attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is “highly significant” for airline safety.

  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    7 months ago

    you can’t have authentication in a one way system. satellites send days, planes receive it, but never send anything.

        • Nailbar@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Playing with semantics a little, it can be thought of as the satellite authenticating with the client using the signature as password.

        • Nailbar@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          You can’t copy a signature, since it is different every time the signed content is different. You need to have the correct key in order to make a valid signature.

        • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          If you’ve figured out how to do that, a lot of governments would pay you a lot of money for your solution