Your GPS device might also include GNSS for potentially greater accuracy (Garmin devices do and I know because I have one).
This story provides evidence Russia is fudging the signals on demand.
More importantly (not really), the devices are now about $300 and you can use them to cheat at Pokemon Go LOL.
Next time I go under a low bridge with a box trailer and come out the other end with a flatbed I am sooooo blaming the Russians
Read a good book about how Soviets used phony radio stations to lure ELINT aircraft across the Russian/Turkish border where they were blown out of the sky/ Forget the name of the book but it was an awesome read.
Shuting down LORAN was stupid, In the 80âs midshipmen complained about having to know how to use a sextant.
"âAll critical national infrastructures rely on GNSS to some extentâ â and the Russians have started hacking it "
Later in article:
âPerhaps more disturbingly, GNSS-spoofing equipment is available to almost anyone for just a few hundred dollars.â
âIn the summer of 2013, a research team from The University of Texas at Austin successfully hijacked the GPS navigation systems onboard an $80 million superyacht using a $2,000 device the size of a small briefcase,â C4ADS said. âThe experimental attack forced the shipâs navigation systems to relay false positioning information to the vesselâs captain, who subsequently made slight course corrections to keep the ship seemingly on track.â
Reality: Anyone can mess with GPS. Ignorant and deliberately malicious people blame Russia.
For US$300 you can mess with GPS and blame Russia too!
The news story directly implicates Russia in this behavior. The fact that you donât need nation-state level resources to do it doesnât change that fact.
There is no sensationalism here. Itâs an newsworthy story about something many people donât know about, and I found Russiaâs larger-scale coordinated use for security purposes quite interesting.
I didnât start it. I posted a story about Russia interfering with GNSS on a large scale with an additional point on the fact you can fool the smart phone in your hand for $300 to win at Poekemon Go. Somebody else accused me of bring up Russia-Gate"when I had mentioned NO POLITICS AT ALL.
Then perhaps a more accurate (less sensationalist/political) title would be âTrust your GPS? Maybe not⌠anyone can muck with itâ?
Page 2 of the report says âThe mention of any ⌠entity in this report does not imply the violation of any law or international agreement, and should not be construed as such.â
So, whereâs the news? A) The study only looked at GNSS within Russian territory (and Syria, where they have been invited to protect the country from aggressors), and B) itâs not breaking any law or international agreement.
In essence, the ânewsâ is that Russia is legally doing stuff in its own country.
Me too, But more tiring is when someone gets a free pass to start it and then I get called out for responding. I learned along time ago (in the military) that passivity under attack is taken for cowardice or weakness. I believe in fairness and I did not see that in your responses.
That applies to the military, but on forums responding with overwhelming force leads to endless squabbles over bullshit and never talking about anything interesting!
Yes, the story here is GPS disruption, and the implications of that are actually really severe. At a large scale you could mess with shipping lanes, costing untold millions of dollars, and the cost to do so would be relatively low. And on a smaller scale you could cause planes to crash, car accidents, etc. The technology needs to be secured somehow. The very simple setup we have right now is surprisingly fragile. Thatâs whatâs interesting.
Perhaps GPS âpingsâ could be cryptographically signed somehow?
Well, yeahâŚgiven you yourselves on your news videos, which I watch religiously (dare I use that term), report on things China and Russia are doing within their own borders. Or did I miss the exemption for GNNS-related intra-national stories where only extra-national stories matter. Further, do you actually think the disruption is only local and insât in the satellites themselves through a backdoor?
The military signals are encrypted (believe theyâre also a lot more accurate than the open ones), but you can still jam them by broadcasting on the same frequencies.
@TrashPanda, the way GPS works is by the satellites broadcasting their location in orbit and the precise time, and your device does the trilateration. Any changes to signal would effect all devices using that satellite at that time.
Linked below an article talking about ways to combat spoofing. Cryptographic signing is indeed one of the three methods, the other two are signal-distortion detection and direction-of-arrival sensing. The right âfixâ is probably a blend of all three.
Main blocker is GPS is incredibly omnipresent, and these methods would increase costs. But it really does seem like itâs necessary. Perhaps not on smartphones, but in airplanes, boats, etc.
Or just disrupting that radio band with as powerful a signal as you can muster. But there is also the possibility they can hack the satellites. who here can guarantee some (all?) GNSS satellites do not have backdoors?