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Forget Rigged Markets: Here's How To Hack A Military Drone By Spoofing GPS
As Sarao faces charges for crashing the US market for "spoofing" stocks, there is another seemingly much graver 'hack' that is now publicly available for all to utilize (and has been). As SputnikNews reports, the information necessary to hack a military drone is freely available to the public via a simple Google search that explains how to successfully "spoof" GPS signals. NATO has admitted this is possible in a 2013 report, and as we have previously noted Iran has already allegedly brought down and reverse-engineered a US drone.
The information necessary to hack a military drone is freely available to the public, in academic publications and online documents, according to an Israeli defense manufacturer.
One such paper was published just a month before Iran claimed it downed a CIA stealth drone in 2011, Esti Peshin said Monday at the Defensive Cyberspace Operations and Intelligence conference in Washington DC. Peshin is the director of cyber programs for Israel Aerospace Industries.
A 2011 study, titled "The Requirements for Successful GPS Spoofing Attacks," explains how to fool GPS sensors like those in drones by mimicking GPS signals.
There's no way to know, Peshin said, if this report in fact directly informed the Iranians, but it does go to show how easily available this information is.
"It’s a PDF file… essentially, a blueprint for hackers," Peshin said. "You can Google, just look up 'Tippenhauer' — it’s the first result in Google. Look up 'UAV cyberattacks' — it’s the third one. 'UAV GPS spoofing attacks' — the first one."
The study explains how to feed the GPS system fake signals so the drone ends up "losing the ability to calculate its position." The study then goes on to describe ways to prevent these kinds of attacks as well.
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A 2013 assessment from NATO itself detailed the risk of drones being hacked and commandeered.
"At the end of the article, as if this was not enough, they listed several UAVs and said these are riskier than others by the way," Peshin said.
Included in that short list are the MQ-9 Reaper and the RQ-170 Sentinel, the drone Iran claimed it commandeered and captured.
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So with iran already having achieved success in hacking a drone... and now looking to unleash suicide drones, it seems cyber-attacks and spoofing just took a turn for the much more serious.
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So you're saying technological-based solutions are vulnerable to other people who also understand that technology? Get the hell outta here. I don't believe you.
The USS Donald Cook is also a terrible example to bring up as further proof of this.
We left all back doors open as a matter of national security!
Who is John Galt ?
MH317?
It really would not be that hard. The system basically works by syncing the clocks in the sats with the receiver's clock. All you would have to do to screw up the system would be by broadcasting bad timing signals. You don't really have to hack anything, you just have to setup a transmitter that acts like a GPS sat with a bad clock
Sure.
Or you could zap it with Magrav and watch it glide to earth.
Isn't a 'suicide drone' more commonly known as a 'missile'?
and isn't the world full of those already?
Well done Iran...
The Chaos Computer Club has described a mini-EMP (lookup RFID zapper) to fry chips in passports. Many people are now working to scale this up. If you can help with the proliferation of such technologies, useful to wage asymmetrical warfare against our overlords please do so. Everyone who has the skills should become a Cody Wilson.
other than bees and wasps, no drone was ever alive to be able to commit suicide, technically speaking as you were.
Still, your point is spot on, arms race and nuke proliferation are the most important taboo subjects today in political speech.
Excuse for plausible deniability if domestic (aggressive) deployment is desired.
The new "domestic" is global as everyone's on the reservation now
Ireland’s Arralis Creates GPS Soldier Tracking Device For UK Military Which Can Use Russian, U.S. Satellites
And we gave them the idea too. In an old Bond film.
A better example of spoofing is how the New World Order hacked the U.S. Presidential election system by creating Barack Obama over 25 years ago, a Manchurian Candidate who went from being a pothead student at Occidental College to editor of the Harvard Law Review to Senator and President. Never once having to provide a birth certificate or any other proof that he was an American citizen. The CIA's "dark core" specialists are experts in spoofing the American public.
In a way it is much better that people do not know or care about what or who runs government. There is no loyalty to the government ... just the vague idea of what America once was. A feeling of disillusionment and betrayal can be a very powerful motivating force.
I am wondering how those in power figure they can survive it. They certainly seem quite desirous to press the issue.
As if another candidate would have been any better. Go Vote Slave. Your masters are calling and want you to choose one of their chosen. Who gives a fuck about a birth certificate. It is so nice to see them blind you with their unicorn and rainbow tricks. Get the fuck out of here. I can not wait to see what you fucking idiots talk about next in the 2016 farce elections run by your master slavers.
Fucking Slaves.
Regards,
You fucking deserve it. Most likely. I am not sure, but I heard it on TV.
Yup, not having a birth certificate is so crucial to the plot. It took them years to find someone without a birth certificate. They really should learn how to fake backgrounds for people. It makes this sort of thing much easier.
I hope you're all as excited as I am that some day soon we'll see these things carrying nukes, now that they're coming of age and all.
"So you're saying technological-based solutions are vulnerable to other people who also understand that technology?"
Poor solutions are vulnerable. There are GPS receivers with anti-spoofing technologies that do work. Surprised the drones don't use them.
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Swarms will be harder because of their numbers unless centrally controlled in the first place.
Can these things deliver pizza, or drop off dry cleaning?
this drone spoofing old news :-|
same as this http://www.gizmag.com/gps-spoofing-yacht-control/28644/
can spoof most anything if you got the gear and the team
So... "how to spoof GPS" and it's served up as a PDF.
*wink*
Yeah, I'll decline the click bait. Thanks, Copyright ©2009-2015 ZeroHedge.com/ABC Media, LTD; All Rights Reserved, for the opportunity though.
Tippenhauer has done a lot of coolio stuff bro.
Low-Complexity Visible Light Networking with LED-to-LED Communication
http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=Ipt...
The GPS trick assumes that you have enough knowledge to implement it.
If you have enough knowledge to implement this, then you will already understand whether it's real or fake. This one isn't fake, but it is outdated, and it only works if the UAV is autonomously navigating from somewhere to somewhere else w/o operator control. You're not going to drop a UAV with a GPS jammer. Now, a small chain cannon or trebuchet with 3D RADAR and intelligent fire control....
Thanks for reminding me about this paper. I had completely forgotten about it. My misplaced copy had been filed under "Kid's Future Science Fair Projects - Topics."
If someone wanted, they could completely take over all these drones Obama has and make them do all kinds of wonky shit.
The way GPS works is you have sats that send out periodic blip signals (sat info and positions and time of day) the drone has a log of the sats that it checks against and uses it to figure out where it is and where its going.
If you spoof the signals correctly (using some program to calculate the signals you need to spoof in order to get the drone to go where you want it by telling it its someplace its not) then you could get it to land in your backyard.
Pretty cool and low - tech method.
The only way to prevent this is to use special coded GPS signals (encrypted) and for the drone to have the key to periodically decrypt the signal (so that the drone knows the GPS signal is from a trusted source).
The key would need to change every mission or downing one drone and recovering the key would again allow the enemy to spoof the signal.
That being said I bet the U.S. Military drones aren't using encrypted GPS keys, probably just the unified GPS system everyone else uses lol
Now I have another thing to add.
You could completely disable all drones over a given area by scrambling the GPS signals (force the drone to fly by remote pilot who recognizes the terrain or by visual terrain mapping software).
If you could scramble the GPS codes and scramble the remote uplinks the drone would be forced to fly with unguided Ai.... (terrain mapping)... which lets face it , the software AI to do that exists but it sucks/is unreliable because you are waiting for a dumb computer to make decisions.
The future of Drones is unguided Ai (terminators) that don't need a remote uplink or gps signal to complete their missions.
Possible mapping solutions that a drone could use:
(At night it could use star mapping + compass to find out where it is/its going)
(In the day it could use solar tracking and a compass to find out where it is by guessing long/lat)
Building software that operates like that + checks against visual terrain mapping as a backup would allow drones to fly unguided missions completely silent, without human input or satelite gps guidence.
This kind of drone probably already exists but isn't deployed yet.
Cool info. Thanks. I was going to mention that Russian ICBMs use star-mapping as part of their guidance systems and have for decades. US relies solely on gyroscopic guidance for it's ICBMs (definitely NOT GPS). The gyroscopes take DAYS to spin up to speed, so they run them 24x7 as they sit in their silos. When they go bad they make a racket so loud the guys who go down into the silos to repair them have to wear double hearing protection.
I'm assuming by "days" you mean "20 minutes." The Soviets had the R-16 ICBM that would spin up in 20 min in 1960.
Russian ICBMs, yes. Not American. The design criteria and warfare assumptions are totally different between the US and Russian designs.
I didn't know about the gyroscopic guidence system pretty cool.
I wouldn't prefer such a system because I would assume you are completely at the mercy of the bearings on the gyro/gimble. which is kind of scary.
Nice video on interial guidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekzwbt3hu2k
We built them to be "fire and forget" and totally autonomous. That is to say, they were designed to be launched under the assumption that the entire US command/control structure was wiped out not long after they were fired. Once our ICBMs jettison the first stage (they have entered space) there is NOTHING that can pull them back. They rely utterly on their near-infallible gyros and listen to NOTHING outside themselves. They WILL fire their warheads and they WILL hit their designated targets. There is no self-destruct past that point.
I don't claim to know what bearings are used in these monsters (I know missile guys that could tell you, but they will never divulge) but I suspect they are magnetic bearings that run at zero friction, or some such insano-tech. The first Peace Keeper ICBMs could hit the city they were aimed at. Successive generations could hit the city block, then the building. The latest generation they say, jokingly, will ring the door bell before entering.
No electronic counter-measures or chaff will distract them in the slightest.
"The latest generation they say, jokingly, will ring the door bell before entering."
Just like the so-called smart bombs. This becomes an enabling factor in their use. Afterall there will be no collateral damage so what's the harm.
Your understanding is inaccurate. US ICBM's use both inertial guidance and stellar navigation, and gyros don't take "days".
"You could completely disable all drones over a given area by scrambling the GPS signals"
I forgot to mention anti-jamming technologies in my comment above.
Military uses selective-availibility (encrypted) data from the satellites. Consumer GPS products use unencrypted data from the same satellites, but the data is manipulated so the calculated position is not as accurate, though it is pretty good, at the moment. .gov can turn off the unencrypted signal or corrupt the data enough to make it useless.
I guarantee no one will recover the key from a SAASM-based GPS reveiver.
edit: I wonder if .gov is killing or manipulating the unencrypted data from satellites that are in view over war zones, effectively denying use by the "enemy". Not that it matters, as they can use GLONASS.
"edit: I wonder if .gov is killing or manipulating the unencrypted data from satellites that are in view over war zones, effectively denying use by the "enemy"."
Since the first Gulf War, yes. Could you still navigate a tank brigade across an open desert and find the next town using the "manipulated" civie GPS signal? Yes. Could you send directed fire at US positions and hit them? No. Being off by a couple hundred yards makes a big difference in war.
I misused the term selective availability. I thought that was the encrypted PPS data. SA is corrupted SPS data meant to induce error in the position calculation. I've forgotten so much of what I used to know. But, I can still read and relearn what I want.
Well fuck me and call me Shirley. Is that not why nukes were made?
Fuck, Sir! Sir! We missed by 25 miles!
Stand down Son! What does not kill them now, will give them something much more worse then herpes even 25 miles away!
I fuck your GPS and raise you nuclear weapons.
Regards,
Where the fuck were you born? Canada without televisions or radios? Have you just found out about the Internet this year?
Actually, they use the fact that computers can not generate random numbers, i.e, pesudo random nunmbers. This, as is, allows a stream of characters or numbers to be predictable; therefore a high precision of granularity can be obtained.
You're knowledge is way behind.
My drones, the one I designed for Mother Russia uses a fractal hash for direction. The drone takes a photo of the topography underneath it at a predefined altitude, distance from launch, and resolution. The image is run through my algorithm which defines it's position in a predefined bounding box. It's part of Chirok's brain.
I don't need no stinking USSA GPS satellites!
Internet bad.........
Fire bad!!!!
Has just come out USA is paying for hostage release...including one killed with our own drone.
Quite surprising given Benghazi.
This will not go over with folks actually fighting the war.
you make search
now you on our rist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOjSEW09NxE
This has been going on for over 15 years. Nothing new to pilots.
excuse: hacked
evidence: secret
liability: zero
handy!
Ha. Now if we could only figure out a way to program the drones to hunt the banksters.
Seeing Jaime Dimon on You Tube being gunned down by a drone like the financial terrorist that he is would be true vindication.
I thought the Saudis tried that 14 years ago.
Tyler wrote...
So with iran already having achieved success in hacking a drone... and now looking to unleash suicide drones, it seems cyber-attacks and spoofing just took a turn for the much more serious.
Is that so? How about a citation or link to a credible source? Or is this simply more demonizing by western media?
Thanks for the down votes -- someone is reading, just not thinking. A common problem.
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All I'm asking for are citations or links to facts supporting a ZH editor's assertion that "iran (sic)... [is] now looking to unleash suicide drones..."
I think it's re: the video that got some airtime last year of a hacked drone being flown about by Iranians and was fairly widely reported (probs still on youtube). I remain open minded/slightly cynical in regard to its origin, but 'Tyler' is assuming legitimacy within the cope of this article it seems.
Suicide drones? Speculation pehaps, but the many possibilities provided by remote controlled ordinance (offensive/covert/staged) is uppermost in the thoughts of devious little shits across the world, without doubt.
The muppets here are fucking idoits. As are most people on ZH. This place is full of fucking idiots. They are just about as good as the MSM. They are full of shit and only like to hear from people whom with they agree.
Regards,
Just look at the ads. Need I say more? This place is all about idiots trying to make a buck from other idiots.
Granted,
Every now and then, a pearl of truth can be found -- however, that is few and far between if you take away the broken record shitposts. Same posts different title and text.
Don't let the doorknob hit ya
. Just look at the ads. Need I say more?
You do know the ads are served via third party and targeted to you based on your browsing history? The ads you are seeing are YOUR own reflection in the mirror, not just this site.
You missed the point...
Funny, I've never seen a single ad. But "idiots" like me know how to install adblock on our browsers and ghostery for avoid any tracking or cookies.
My advice, buy another neuron so you can finally form a synaspse!
This is exactly why the military did not adopt Tesla's automatons for warfare over a hundred years ago. Because they knew the first thing that would happen is that would be hacked or replicated by the enemy and used on the elite at that time. This time they will be used on the banking families and those that fund the military by their enemies. The problem with the world is that the elite have become so detached that they can be sold anything. There is no NWO in the NWO they are idiots.
How to spoof a spy satellite: http://aero.tamu.edu/sites/default/files/images/Alfriend/S4%203%20Aleshi...
What I have wondered from the first is why the military spec drones don't carry a self destruct switch. There are several ways to automate that would be effective in the event a drone loses communication or otherwise fails.
Iranians are no fools.
They are Aryans (they claim)
And when they have nukes & ICBMs (they will eventually),
American & western rape of the world will stop
Most Iranians are islamic and believe in the koran and its literal teachings.
Islam, like all religions, is organized superstition.
Organized superstition is foolish. (and a waste of time)
Ergo: Iranians are indeed fools.
QED
See the power of logic and the scientific method? And why we developed fission and the atomic bomb and they won't unless they steal it (as every nation except the US did to obtain it). To defeat us they must become us-scientific and atheistic. Ponder that truth deeply little grasshopper.
Wow, your head is so far up your ass it has actually come out the other side.
You assumed too much.
The Iranians that I know are NOT fools.
They are just as cynical as the rest of us. Mocking the Mullahs to somebody that they know is especial Cynical, the Western Clerical elite is in the same level of Contempt.
And the ones that I know were also in the IT Industry.
You can scramble the frequency. They drop like a sack of potatoes. Helps reserve ammunition.
khibiny
Wow. I haven't heard that word in ages. You sumed it up in one word. No one wins that war. They have no idea of the ramifications in crossing that line.
Political heads will be sitting in open view, dead on a pike.
The air force has known about this for quite a while, which is one reason the block III gps sats are in production.
That's why MH 370 is a mystery. Ask Blackrock about the Chinese on the flight. Pull the financial records. We should expect multiple nail gun raids. Our Krugman founder will have the phone records. It was a alien evasion he will explain.
We need to raise a generation of super hackers if we hope to be able to stand up against the U.S. gov. We're raising a generation of dumbasses instead. Unless they can spoof GPS via an app on their iPhone, there's no chance. The crippling of the slave classes is making excellent progress. Aristocracy in 3... 2...
Google can only ping me off local towers. My location is unknown. When you shutdown location services, they are holding their dick in their hand. Plenty of ways to advert marginalizing the free advertising under the TOS. These stupid cunts don't have a clue.
Of course when some twit makes a super long range version of this, then my poor cat will no longer be able to get into our house after his microchip gets zapped...
It has occureed to me that if one was to purchase MANY of the cheaper jammers that can be found really cheap if you look hard enough then you could jam an entire building from multiple locations (waste paper baskets, false ceilings, broom cupboards etc.)
Just gotta pick the right building at the right time of day... :c)
Time to shut down internet