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Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht | SciGuy | a Chron.com blog


Awesome (if terrifying) school project out of UT.  Don't mess with Texas, apparently.

Source: http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2013/07/texas-students-fake-gps-signals...

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Ashley Feinberg of Gizmodo explains:

Of course, since this was a controlled experiment, the spoof was performed with the yacht owner's full permission, but it exposes a major, potentially highly dangerous flaw in land and sea transportation networks. And according to the Houston Chronicle, about 90% of the world's freight is transported overseas.

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