GPS 'spoofing' could threaten national security

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Gadgets  Thu, 10/02/2008 - 10:52

A ship's bridge illuminated at night.<br /><br />A technique for sabotaging GPS systems, called spoofing, could cause havoc in the wrong hands, warn researchers.<br /><br />In spoofing, a spoofer creates a false GPS signal that passes as a real GPS signal, sending an incorrect time and location to a certain receiver.<br /><br />Computers have been hacked for decades. But now, scientists at Cornell University and Virginia Tech are now warning about the dangers of "spoofing," or hacking into the Global Positioning System (GPS) that controls everything from car navigation to national power grids.



 

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