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Originally posted by soficrow
...Assuming that airliners really can't be controlled by GPS/Sat Systems, still, couldn't a hack conceivably disrupt things just enough to cause serious errors (as with ships)?
...There was a series of airplane accidents and problems running over about 10-15 years that never were explained properly - I'm thinking this might shed some light...
Cyber War: Sabotaging the System
"In 2007 we probably had our electronic Pearl Harbor. It was an espionage Pearl Harbor," Lewis said. "Some unknown foreign power, and honestly, we don't know who it is, broke into the Department of Defense, to the Department of State, the Department of Commerce, probably the Department of Energy, probably NASA. They broke into all of the high tech agencies, all of the military agencies, and downloaded terabytes of information."
…the previous administration didn't want to admit that they had been rolled in 2007. There's a disincentive to tell people, 'Hey, things are going badly.'
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Cyber War Expert Slams Bush, Broadcaster Response to Internet Attacks.
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The broadcasting industry's first specialist in cyber war, nationally syndicated conservative radio columnist Andy Martin, will hold a New York news conference Thursday January 30th to charge the Bush administration's lack of response to Internet attacks could endanger the American economy and military preparedness.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
I am MOST particularly interested in the first external reference, you posted, about the Boeing 727 Raytheon experiment, where it says "there were no pilots onboard".
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Edit to add here....I am even MORE interested, because I have many hours in the Boeing 727, dating from 1984 to 1991....and I KNOW the systems pretty well, on that airplane.....I question this 'source', unless I can read it for myself...
I think I'm pretty well in tune with things aviation-oriented, and I WOULD HAVE HEARD of this!!!!!
"GPS gives us transportation, distribution industry, 'just-in-time' manufacturing, emergency services operations - even mining, road building and farming, all these and a zillion more," David Last, a consultant engineer and former president of the Royal Institute of Navigation, told the conference.
"...GPS (also keeps) our telephone networks, the internet, banking transactions and even our power grid online."
Originally posted by ownbestenemy
reply to post by soficrow
You continue either through denial, ignorance, or just plain unwillingness to understand the difference between positional data and airplane control via GPS.
Originally posted by ownbestenemy
reply to post by soficrow
Man....this is like wading through a dense fog.
You are connecting the potential to the actual. Is there a potential that GPS....oh wait, you have changed the word to 'navigational', systems could be spoofed. I am sure they can be. Anything that is electronic and not highly secured can be, and will be, messed with.
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Originally posted by soficrow
I reported that professional navigation agencies say jamming and spoofing puts NAVIGATION at risk - and recommend regulating and control lingthe Internet in order to protect NAVIGATION as well as critical infrastructure from GPS hacks. ...I simply suggested that such a response doesn't make sense.