Researchers from the University of Texas recently demonstrated how a civiliam UAS can be easily “spoofed” by jamming it with a fake GPS signal. Professor Todd Humphreys from Austin’s Radionavigation Laboratory concludes that, “Spoofing a GPS receiver on a UAV is just another way of hijacking a plane,”
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Drones vulnerable to terrorist hijacking, researchers say
Added 7/3, Follow-up story by Lee Dye of ABC’s Good Morning America…
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Rich Hanson
AMA Government and Regulatory Affairs