Todd Humphreys and his University of Texas team steered an $80 million superyacht off course in 2013 while its crew watched instruments that swore everything was fine — using gear costing a few thousand dollars

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A research team from the University of Texas, led by Todd Humphreys, successfully steered an $80 million superyacht off course in 2013 using relatively inexpensive gear. This incident is similar to another experiment where a research team spoofed a drone out of the sky in 2012, demonstrating the ability to hijack navigation with off-the-shelf parts. The details of these experiments suggest that navigation systems can be vulnerable to interference from fake satellite signals.

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