GPS vulnerabilities from jamming and spoofing drive urgent development of backup navigation systems
By
Zak Kassas
Summary
This article examines the growing vulnerability of GPS systems to jamming and spoofing attacks, driven by both criminal activity and geopolitical conflicts (e.g., near Hormuz Strait). It explores how modern navigation has become dangerously dependent on satellite signals that can be easily disrupted or faked, and highlights the race among researchers and engineers to develop backup navigation systems — including inertial navigation, celestial navigation, and ground-based radio systems — to safeguard critical transportation sectors like aviation and maritime shipping.
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· 5 pulledFew people want to get lost when traveling. But if there are places where being lost feels especially unsettling, they tend to be the sea, desert and sky.
Knowing where you are depends on information that you cannot see for yourself.
For most of human history, finding your way in such environments required skill, judgment and constant attention.
Satellite navigation marked a fundamental shift.
its signals can easily be jammed and almost as easily faked.
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