by paulirish
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- This was not spoofed at the ADS-B layer. It was just spoofed to adsb exchange. (While typically a feeder contributes to multiple sites, this one didn't.) eg:
- https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.678&lon=-80.030&zo...
- https://adsb.lol/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.678&lon=-80.030&zoom=14...
Relevant discussion on r/adsb: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/comments/1qp3q9n/interesting/ where they note it's also absent on FR24, airplanes.live, and theairtraffic.com.
The adsb-x feeder map: https://map.adsbexchange.com/mlat-map/ They probably won't have a hard time identifying who contributed that data.
by jjwiseman
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- As other commenters noted, this is almost certainly not RF spoofing, just sending bad data to an aggregator (ADS-B Exchange) over the internet.
This instance of spoofing is notable for being the first that I know of that wasn't primitive vector art or text, but a raster image!
In that area of Florida multiple receivers would have picked up actual ADS-B broadcasts. ADS-B aggregators do have various anti-spoofing measures, but they're not impossible to circumvent.
The only case of actual RF spoofing of aircraft transponder signals that I know of was actually done by the U.S. Secret Service, which interfered with passenger jet collision alert systems (TCAS) by apparently broadcasting bogus signals near Ronald Reagan National Airport (KDCA): https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/aviation-flights-whi...
- The FCC and the FAA are two federal agencies that really don't want to mess with, so I hope for their sake they didn't actually spoof it. (.... I wish there were an FBB as well)
- It's still there as of now:
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.678&lon=-...
by decimalenough
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- Unless I'm much mistaken, Vance's face is centered over Mar-a-Lago!
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fjqtAa2qgcWsJvFfA
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.680&lon=-...
by fortran77
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- Most likely they spoofed the reporting API to "FlightAware" or other ADSB crowd-data-sourced sites and didn't spoof "ADSB Signals"
by KnuthIsGod
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- How long before domestic terrorism charges are laid ?
Everthing seems to be domestic terrorism in the US these days.
- It's happening again. Spoofing is in progress, rendering another image. ADS-B Exchange has blocked access to the ICAOs/hexes in question--if you try to look at their history you get redirected to the base map.
https://x.com/TheIntelFrog/status/2016841289556168990
by guerrilla
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- For those wondering, https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jd-vance-edited-face-photosho...
by tanseydavid
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- Reality is just so @#$%^&* weird these days. Feels like a bad dream.
by idontwantthis
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- Can someone explain what this means? Where would this have been seen?
by eep_social
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- edit: op also has this, disregard
hugged but someone caught it: https://archive.is/VrEtg
by burnt-resistor
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- Since most of these ADS-B collection sites are patchworks of unofficial/best effort, that seems like a great attack vector for nation state-level spoofing to interrupt flight planning, capacity planning, other tertiary air transport operations, and make civilians nervous. It's analogous to "hobby" code running key infrastructure of the internet without serious processes and auditing, testing, and verification.
It would be far better and more reliable to have the FAA do it by providing authoritative single source of truth as (selectively) open data rather than depend upon the whims / greed / sloppiness of an over-privatized utility. ATCs need and/or have this data anyhow, so in the future, it should be provided.
How do less neoliberal European countries do it?
- Isn't this actually illegal?
- Hilarious
by andrewstuart
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- Please explain the tech.
by burnt-resistor
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- This is just yet another cost and side-effect of a deeply unpopular, business-destroying, corrupt regime.
by sammy2255
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- This has gotta be some sort of federal crime
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