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title: Students Take Control of $80 Million Superyacht Using Fake GPS Signals — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/students-take-control-of-80-million-superyacht-using-fake-gps-signals/
date: 2013-07-30
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# Students Take Control of $80 Million Superyacht Using Fake GPS Signals

A radio navigation research team from the Cockrell School’s Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics successfully discovered they could subtly coerce a 213-foot superyacht off its course, using a custom-made GPS device. The purpose of the experiment was to measure the difficulty of carrying out a spoofing attack at sea and to determine how easily sensors in the ship’s command room could identify the threat. The animation above shows how they did it.