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Oct 9, 2008

Counter Technology * USA - Spoofing GPS Receivers

Ithaca, NY,USA -The Cornell News, by Anne Ju -19 Sept 2008: -- Cornell University researchers have shown that global positioning system (GPS) technology is vulnerable to spoofing, or transmitting fake signals that receivers believe are authentic. At a meeting of the Institute of Navigation in Savannah, Ga., the researchers presented a paper that described how a phony GPS receiver was placed near a navigation device, and tracked, modified, and retransmitted the signals from the system of satellites circling the Earth. The navigation device eventually mistook the false signals as real signals. The team says a GPS attack would have a serious impact considering how ubiquitous the technology has become...

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