Students Hijack $80 Million Superyacht With GPS Spoofing

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?

[XanC]

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?

[Pseudonym Authority]

Also, http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/07/26/2344215/gps-spoofing-with-3000-worth-of-equipment-and-a-laptop [slashdot.org] . God damn, it looks like this story just isn't going to stop showing up until every ``editor'' has had their turn.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Your mistake was looking at the text on /.. You're just supposed to comment, and hopefully click on some ads.

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[rudy_wayne]

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?

[sjames]

College students with $3000 in equipment hijack 'News for Nerds'.

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[rullywowr]

It's not like Slashdotters RTFA anyways...so maybe they were hoping nobody would notice.

wtf /. stop being shitty

[maliqua]

see topic 3 times in what 4 days?

Dupe

[Anonymous Coward]

You have one job, editors. One job! [slashdot.org]

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[Pseudonym Authority]

Editor's edit; reader's read. If you've got a problem with the division of labor, talk to the union.

Re:Dupe

[Professr3]

Given your use of the grocers' apostrophe, you're clearly one of the readers.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Still better than the real editors.

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[somersault]

That's deep, man.

Re: Dupe

[ti-85]

"Hmm, the eternal question."

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[kpoole55]

I thought the eternal question was "Goobers or Raisinettes?"

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[adolf]

Editor's edit; reader's read. If you've got a problem with the division of labor, talk to the union.

How do I contact this union? I've got a few grievances to file.

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[Artea]

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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[JWSmythe]

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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[lxs]

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

[frovingslosh]

No idiot, it's a trip.

Record?

[orson_of_fort_worth]

Anybody know what the fewest number of posts between the original and a dupe is?

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[Anonymous Coward]

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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[tlhIngan]

Anybody know what the fewest number of posts between the original and a dupe is?

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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[JWSmythe]

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?

[Anonymous Coward]

This article is STILL ONTFRONT PAGE.
A yes, I am yelling.

Re:Do the editors even read this site?

[CannonballHead]

You're yelling so loudly, you seemed to have missed a few letrs.

This just in...

[SpaceGhost]

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

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[fredrated]

Citation or he is still alive.

NSA

[EzInKy]

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

[CoolGopher]

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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[JayRott]

Aye!

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[Trax3001BBS]

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!

[JayRott]

Hey, I have a GED. Can I apply to be a Slashdot editor or am I over qualified?

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[Buchenskjoll]

I don't know what you are talking about, but GED means goat in Danish. If you have a goat, I think you are qualified.

Re: Almost the same damn title!

[JayRott]

GED stands for "general equivalency diploma" and is awarded when you take a test in lieu of finishing high school. It is commonly referred to as a "Good Enough Diploma." I don't have a goat but I've got a beard, does that count for anything?

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[TheNastyInThePasty]

That depends. Is your IQ above room temperature?

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[rwise2112]

That depends. Is your IQ above room temperature?

Celcius or fahrenheit?

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[jones_supa]

Can you put links to some Slashdot articles from that era (they are all archived) so we can look if there is a difference.

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[aardvarkjoe]

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?

[Buchenskjoll]

Host: Good evening, I have with me Mr Arthur Frampton, who... Mr Frampton I understand that you, as it were have - well let me put it another way... I believe Mr Frampton that whereas most people... didn't we do this just now? Frampton: Er ... yes. Host: Well why didn't you say so? Frampton: I thought it was the continental version.

Thats why a skipper should not rely on GPS alone

[angel'o'sphere]

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

[dark-br]

Slashdot: News for the amnesiac, stuff that mattered.

Modern day ...

[PPH]

... version of The Train [wikipedia.org]?

Drone Alert!

[kevinT]

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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[mikael]

Or better still, have better GPS antennae that can sense the location of transmissions and figure out that they are local.