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Default Iranian Engineer Claims Ability to Spoof GPS Signals/Location

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:17:43 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:35:03 -0500, Wayne.B
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Which explains how they hijacked a drone.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1215/Exclusive-Iran-hijacked-US-drone-says-Iranian-engineer-Video?google_editors_picks=true

Interesting article.

Make sure your boat is where you think it is... :-)


I always wondered how secure GPS could be if a WiFi company could jam
them accidently


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Jamming is easy compared to actual position spoofing which requires
precisely replicating the satellite data with altered signal timing.
Any strong signal on or near the GPS frequencies can overwhelm the
front end of the reciver however since the satellite signals are
relatively weak.