A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into oncoming traffic

Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ... by jaimex2 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:38AM (#17565631)

I remember reading the Kremlin has a high powered version of this mocking the airport co-ordinates so drones would not fly in its airspace.

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Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ... by walrus01 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:01AM (#17566334)

yes, a number of people have seen their smartphones when near the kremlin show coordinates of one of moscow's airports, such as seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRlxSF5bwTI

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Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ... by lawlessone on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:47AM (#17565686)

>mocking the airport co-ordinates

Sounds very dangerous. If an aircraft was landing in poor visibility they could use that to make t crash.

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Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ... by red75prime on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:55AM (#17565741)

Airports use ILS with their own guiding antenna arrays and their own frequencies. At least this particular airport should.

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Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ... by ceejayoz on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:25AM (#17566011)

GPS can be and is used as a replacement for an ILS approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localizer_performance_with_ver...

> As of September 17, 2015 the Federal Aviation Administration has published 3,567 LPV approaches at 1,739 airports. This is greater than the number of published Category I ILS procedures.

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Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ... by oh_sigh on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:16AM (#17566454)

The aircraft would have to be within a few hundred foot bubble of Central Moscow in order to receive the spoofed signal. There are already major problems if an airplane picks up that spoofed signal and tries to land based on it.

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Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ... by baq on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:54AM (#17565732)

does ILS use GPS?

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Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ... by SteveNuts on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:21AM (#17565981)

No it's radio waves with directional antennas

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