[time-nuts] Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon

Ken Winterling wa2lbi at gmail.com
Tue Aug 15 12:58:17 EDT 2017


Hmmm....   Bob,

It seems you have given a considerable amount of thought to armored cars,
gold bars, bank vaults, and stock trades...  Is there anything you want to
tell us  LOL

Ken
WA2LBI




On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Bob kb8tq <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> In the case of a spoof, the target is likely one specific vehicle. You
> care about the
> armored car with the big pile of gold bars in it. The objective is not to
> get him to
> drive into a bridge abutment. It’s to get him to turn left on the wrong
> road. You tailor
> the spoof so everything “makes sense”.  Likely you spend a *lot* of time
> planning
> just how the spoof will happen and what is down that road he turned on.
> This isn’t
> a random process ….
>
> In the same sense, if you are going to spoof time, you do it for a
> specific reason and
> with a specific target. You want the bank vault to open early. You want
> the stock trade
> to get time stamped “just right”. There’s no need to throw off every clock
> everywhere if
> you can identify autonomous GPS based time islands. Finding those time
> islands takes
> work. So does tracking down the armored car with the gold in it ….
>
> Bob
>
>


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