The growing threat of GPS attacks on airlines
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
On the show today: a story from the “this is terrifying” file. Cybersecurity researchers are bringing attention to a recent surge in GPS “spoofing” on commercial airlines. We’ll explain how these digital attacks work and why they pose a danger. And, former President Donald Trump made his return to the social media site X to promote an upcoming conversation with Elon Musk. We’ll get into it. Plus, Kai Ryssdal tells us all about his adventures in France to see the Paris Olympics.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Trump Returns to X With Several Posts Ahead of Musk Interview” from Bloomberg
- “GPS spoofers ‘hack time’ on commercial airlines, researchers say” from Reuters
- “Meta beats censorship lawsuit by RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine group” from Reuters
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| 0:31.0 | Enough rambling. |
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| 0:37.0 | Hey everyone I'm Ka, Rizdall, welcome back to make me smart, where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:44.1 | And I'm no bassafowing for Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:45.8 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:46.8 | It's Monday, August 12th. |
| 0:48.9 | Monday, August 12th, I should tell you right at the jump here. |
| 0:51.9 | I got back from my vacation last night |
| 0:55.0 | I am a little bit jet-lagged I had like five hours of sleep so we're gonna see how this goes |
| 0:58.7 | all right how was France well we're gonna get there we going to save that from my own house. Yes, we are going to do some news then we'll do some miles and then we'll get out of your way. |
| 1:10.0 | Nova, what do you got? Okay, from the, this is terrifying file. |
| 1:16.0 | I'd like to present this evidence. |
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