New Satellites Will Use Radio Waves to Spy on Ships and Planes
New Satellites Will Use Radio Waves to Spy on Ships and Planes
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 7, 20186m 47s
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Show Notes
When a company called HawkEye360 wanted to test its wares, it gave an employee a strange, deceptive task. While the worker stood in Virginia, he held the kind of transceiver that ships carry to broadcast their GPS locations. Usually such a signal would reveal his true position to a radio receiver, but he’d altered the broadcast to spoof his GPS position, making it seem like he was in fact off the coast of Maine.
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