Re: ADS-B-The Terrorism Panacea

[Dave J]

Despite the ridiculousness of this post, as well pointed out by other
r.a.p-ers, I have also wondered about the potential for spoofing ADS-
B.

[Larry Dighera]

On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:53:54 -0700, Dave J
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>I don't really know how these systems are designed, but if there is an
>ADS-B transceiver that is connected to a GPS device by a simple serial
>connection sending unencrypted NMEA sentences, for example, then
>spoofing such a system by cutting that line and injecting false
>information into the transceiver would be trivial. With that, a
>nefarious person could rather easily put lots of unreliable data into
>the system, thus created a kind of "denial of service" attack.
>Clearly, the FAA and/or military are going to have to keep at least
>their primary radars.

I agree about ADS-B systems being vulnerable to spoofing, and said as
much in this article:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.owning/msg/e653559926909f6b?dmode=source
back in August 2006.

When you start thinking about the potential ATC vulnerabilities
satellite-based NextGen will introduce, it's overwhelming.