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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by michaelt on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @08:47AM (#10777689) 

  The ShadowHawk uses military-grade encryption and changes
  GPS frequencies every half second, according to Buscher.
That doesn't sound true - the GPS satellites don't do frequency hopping, you get 1575.42MHz, 1227.60MHz and that's it. All the linked paper says is that you can use the precise time from a GPS receiver to start up a different radio system that needs precise timing.
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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by moron4hire on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:15PM (#10778914)
LOL "Military Grade". Anything that is labeled "Military Grade" means it has gone through a long, bureaucratic specification and procurement process. The spec is obsolete by the time it actually gets anywhere. With the pace of progress these days, "Military Grade" means "5 years old."
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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by FLUX-YOU on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:31PM (#10779019)
I'm starting to think the same of healthcare software, except we call it "Hospital Grade"
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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by morcheeba on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @10:38AM (#10778307)
I'll second that. It makes no sense. Perhaps they change a DGPS signal every half second, but that won't help.

I've learned to not try to fix an absurd argument for the other person, so I'll stop speculating.

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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by fweespeech on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:26PM (#10778985)
It sounds like bullshit salespeak, tbh. "Hey we are doing what we can at the price point you asked for. If you want more, it costs more."
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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by feld on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @09:55AM (#10778032)
I was wondering about this too... there's something fishy about this quote.
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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by upofadown on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @04:47PM (#10780602)
The paper at the link isn't about any sort of countermeasures. It's about repeating GPS signals to the inside of shielded areas on the same frequencies.
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