New "spoofing" attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is "highly significant" for airline safety.

Commercial Flights Are Experiencing ‘Unthinkable’ GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do::New “spoofing” attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is “highly significant” for airline safety.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    “Give me a stopwatch and a map and I’ll fly the Alps in a plane with no windows?”

    This was supposed to be a wild boast by the Russian navigator in Hunt for Red October but is apparently now standard piloting procedure.