Students Hijack $80 Million Superyacht With GPS Spoofing 75
mask.of.sanity writes "A team of university students have hijacked an $80 million superyacht using GPS spoofing without tripping alarms. The experiment (run with permission) saw the White Rose sail from Monaco to the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean. Faint GPS signals broadcast from a spoofing device slowly overpowered authentic signals allowing the students control over the yacht's navigational system."
Look familiar? (Score:5, Informative)
It's still on the front page!
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/07/29/1929205/college-students-hijack-80-million-yacht-with-gps-signal-spoofing [slashdot.org]
Re:Look familiar? (Score:4, Informative)
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Your mistake was looking at the text on /.. You're just supposed to comment, and hopefully click on some ads.
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It's still on the front page!
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/07/29/1929205/college-students-hijack-80-million-yacht-with-gps-signal-spoofing [slashdot.org]
And it was a stupid, boring story the first 2 times it was posted.
Re:Look familiar? (Score:5, Funny)
College students with $3000 in equipment hijack 'News for Nerds'.
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wtf /. stop being shitty (Score:5, Informative)
see topic 3 times in what 4 days?
Dupe (Score:1, Informative)
You have one job, editors. One job! [slashdot.org]
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Re:Dupe (Score:5, Insightful)
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That's deep, man.
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I thought the eternal question was "Goobers or Raisinettes?"
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How do I contact this union? I've got a few grievances to file.
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Editor's edit; reader's read. If you've got a problem with the division of labor, talk to the union.
Since when? I thought the agreement was the editors wouldn't edit, readers wouldn't rtfa, and we would all collect our pay at the end of the day.
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If he had been reading the contract, he would have seen the first item. "1) You will not discuss any part of this contract with anyone except the aforementioned Employer."
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I get paid for not reading TFA? In that case I have 13 years of wages to collect! Who do I see about that?
Dupe? No idiot (Score:2)
Record? (Score:5, Funny)
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First time I've seen a dupe of a story still on the front page... This may be the current record holder.
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One, I think.
Zero if you include the "dupe April Fool" joke (the one about the evil bit).
And last I checked, we're in July, which is the seventh month of a standard Gregorian calendar. April is the fourth month. And that Fourth and Seventh are not the same number/
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I've seen a dupe come immediately after the initial post, about an hour later.
It's something you just get used to. Complaining about them is like complaining about traffic, or lines at the DMV. They happen. There isn't anything you can do about it.
Do the editors even read this site? (Score:2, Funny)
This article is STILL ONTFRONT PAGE.
A yes, I am yelling.
Re:Do the editors even read this site? (Score:4, Funny)
This just in... (Score:5, Funny)
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
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Citation or he is still alive.
NSA (Score:1)
As long as it reduces the number of stories about the "no such agency", all is good. Seriously, did you really think anyone was going to allow students to investigate real hacking opportunities?
Solution to the dupes (Score:4, Insightful)
Let's attach a tazer to each of the "editors", and hand out "tazer points" in addition to mod points using the same scheme. Apply same as usual moderation, only with more painful effects! I am quite confident this would remove the dupes in short time.
All in favor say "aye"!
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Let's attach a tazer to each of the "editors",
All in favor say "aye"!
aye,
Goto 2:00 in the video and pause
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7-JZq0YxsM#t=2m00 [youtube.com] (set up correctly but doesn't work)
Now imagine you've asked an editor are they sure this isn't a dupe, Then start the video
-First thing that came to mind - could be a lot of fun.
Almost the same damn title! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re: Almost the same damn title! (Score:2)
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That depends. Is your IQ above room temperature?
Celcius or fahrenheit?
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Every once in a while there were pretty bad spelling mistakes in the stories and there was the occasional dupe, but never like this.
This is a definite case of rose-colored glasses. CmdrTaco posted dupes so often that it became a running joke. A common request was to add a feature to stop the editors from posting a story containing the same link as a previous story.
A man with three buttocks? (Score:1)
Thats why a skipper should not rely on GPS alone (Score:3)
Piloting a yacht by GPS alone is negligent at best or just plain stupid at worst.
At least a depth finder and a compass should be involved, also if you are in the mediterian sea landmarks can and should be watched. Heck even comming into range of a certain coastal radio station is something you usually watch.
Time for a new Slashdot slogan (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot: News for the amnesiac, stuff that mattered.
Modern day ... (Score:3)
Drone Alert! (Score:2)
In consideration of many drones now using GPS to navigate and Iran already claims to have "captured" a United States drone using faked GPS signals. I would hope that the corporations handling GPS systems be figuring out ways of detecting spoofed GPS signals.
FYI - Crew of a $80M yacht relying solely on GPS to navigate? Seriously? What ever happened to paper charts, sextants, taking sightings and looking at radar returns from land masses? The U.S. Navy .... ran aground in the Philippines, Hawaii, and ....
Just
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Or better still, have better GPS antennae that can sense the location of transmissions and figure out that they are local.