America is at risk of high impact GPS jamming and spoofing from space - SpaceNews
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The United States has made few preparations for such attacks on its homeland and infrastructure, despite mishaps at home that have disrupted air traffic control systems and regular press reports of American weapons systems degraded by jamming and spoofing overseas.
    • @[email protected]English
      7•2 months ago

      “There is every reason to believe China’s BeiDou global navigation satellite system has the ability to imitate American GPS signals and those of Europe’s Galileo,” said Professor Todd Humphreys of the University of Texas Radionavigation Lab…

      • ohellidkEnglish
        5•2 months ago

        looks like our systems need some sort of security update. problem is, would all of our GPS receivers need updated too? maybe a GPS 2.0 or something?

        • threelonmusketeersMEnglish
          1•2 months ago

          Aren’t the satellites already up to GPS III now? If a hardware upgrade is required, seems ilke it would be GPS IV.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 months ago

          Or we just arm our gps satellites and let them pick out and disable offensive satellites. Might be cheaper.