Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do

TL:DR: Israel and Iran are the source of the spoofing.

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The planes first received spoofed GPS signals, meaning signals designed to fool planes’ systems into thinking they are flying miles away from their real location. One of the aircraft almost flew into Iranian airspace without permission

Tomorrow Never Dies continues to be bizarrely relevant.

Fucking serves them right, the aviation industry have been buying GPS devices for decades that bleed outside and don't explicitly filter down to their spectrum. There was a satellite internet startup in the US that went through the whole process, bought its spectrum and was ready to launch, then the aviation industry complained and had them shut down because their devices were all shit and "it would be too difficult to change everyone's equipment".

That just means you can't use autoland in low visibility conditions. Modern IRUs (inertial reference unit) are highly accurate laser gyros that can use GPS for correction, but will throw out the data if it doesn't make sense. Navigation won't be affected much, and autoland (if used) will still rely on VHF guidance.

We need a backup for GPS. LORAN should never have been shut down.

Yet another reason to avoid the middle east

This sounds rather dangerous. GPS was originally opened up to civilian use for the purpose of keeping flights on course, after the disaster of Korean Air Flight 007 straying into Soviet airspace and being shot down back in the 1980s.

I can't understand what is to be gained by deliberately trying to knock civilian airliners off course.

I've got an idea, how bout stop using the same technology from 20 years ago?

What about GLONASS, Galilleo, or BDS? Are they all being equally jammed? Why wouldn’t they sync with all of them and use a consensus to determine accuracy? Like having multiple ntp servers.

Do none of the systems, GPS, glonass etc. use encryption or authentication of any form?

Will time to fire up the floppy drives for updates!

I generally don't believe in an isolationist American policy except for Israel. They always drag us into stupid shit like this.

Easy solution: homing rockets that seek out the strongest signal using that band. Whitelist the sources that are official and proper.

GPS is passive so the rockets won't go for the plane... it'll go for the transmission tower.

Use less destructive devices if you'd rather risk sending humans to do the job.

boosting the stereotype

Nobody knows what to do?

How they did between 1890 and 1980? Maybe with paper maps and their eyes? It needs investigating!