TNB Tech Minute: Hundreds of Daily Flights Hit by GPS Spoofing
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Here's your T&B Tech Minute for Monday, September 23rd. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:38.0 | We exclusively report that hundreds of daily flights, including commercial passenger and cargo jets around the world, are running into GPS spoofing. |
| 0:47.0 | The false signals are taxing pilot's attention and creating glitches that last for a few minutes or an entire flight, aviation |
| 0:55.5 | industry officials say. Spoofing global positioning systems is a technique |
| 0:59.8 | used by militaries to ward off drones and missiles. But pilots, aviation industry |
| 1:05.0 | officials and regulators say spoofed GPS signals are spreading beyond |
| 1:09.3 | active conflict zones and are confusing cockpit navigation and safety systems. |
| 1:14.9 | The number of flights affected each day has risen from a few dozen in February to more than |
| 1:19.6 | 1100 in August. |
| 1:21.6 | That's according to analyses from Sky Data Services and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. |
| 1:27.0 | The Commerce Department has proposed banning the use of Chinese and Russian components inside connected vehicles on US roads, citing |
| 1:35.9 | spying concerns. |
| 1:37.7 | The Biden administration fears Beijing and Moscow could use these components to collect data on American infrastructure and |
| 1:44.1 | drivers, as well as hack communications needed to keep connected vehicles operational. |
| 1:49.2 | In February, the Commerce Department announced an inquiry into the potential risks posed to the U.S. by Chinese |
| 1:55.0 | smart cars, software, and certain parts. |
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