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.
TL:DR: Israel and Iran are the source of the spoofing.
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And Iran, according to the article
Israel Iran and Russia be like
Lemmy is starting to feel like Discord with people dropping lazy images like this in every damn thread.
Literally couldn’t even bother to edit the image so the country names are in the image.
Yeah on my phone in hospital waiting room, didn’t have time.
has enough literacy skills to pick up on humor in more than just the shared image
I thought it was funny, anyway…
I hope everything turns out ok!
Thanks yeah one of my kids had a chronic condition so it’s not really anything unexpected but also not fun and just a ton of waiting.
Yeah,I’ve spent too much time in hospitals with a kid this year. It’s the waiting and uncertainty that are the worst.
Wow. The state of Israel is really piling on the reasons to hate it these days.
It was doing this for decades but Western countries only start hearing about it.
Social media have prevailed over classic media, and this time they have proven to be harder to steer.
And Russia was doing it just a few years ago, too.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/vladimir-putin/russia-spoofing-gps-vast-scale-stop-drones-approaching-putin-report-n987376#
The article says the spoofing was first recorded in September from Iran, then Israel started doing some after the October Hammas attacks