Spoofing ADS-B

This video shows Synthetic ADS-B out messages being generated from the virtual plane in Flightgear being captured by an ADS-B reciever and displayed along with other 'real' detected traffic in a Google Earth display. This was tested using a dummy load and at no time did fake ADS-B signals reach the outside air.

Generated by Nick Foster as part of RenderMans Defcon 20 presentation: "Hackers + Airplanes = No good can come of this"

Check Renderlab.net/projects/ADS-B for the presentation slides

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[Leo Sniper]

aca en argentina es muy vulnerable el sistema de radar, se puede hacer lo que se les ocurra que no hay seguridad

here in Argentina is very vulnerable radar system, you can do whatever you can think of no safety

[ibangbeatz]

this on bt??

[Mahesh Kommareddi]

So there's some talk in the airplane enthusiast community about drones. One linked popped up (from Forbes at that): forbes. com/sites/businessaviation/201­2/10/16/will-your-next-airplan­e-be-a-drone/

You'll note that there's only one paragraph on drones themselves, but dig a bit on how the avoidance works:

avweb. com/avwebflash/news/und_sense_­avoid_faa_nasa_adsb_test_fligh­t_mitre_drone_uas_207381-1.htm­l

I don't think I'm misreading that the system is using ADS-B for avoidance.

[George Ou]

Let me put it to you this way. There was a guy who built a drone on a 1.5 horse power engine that traversed the English channel at 10K feet. There are 11 horsepower engines for model airplanes that can be had for under $500 and a full plane pushes the price to maybe $2K. The only thing that limits the altitude is the radio controller and the ground pilot, but I'm talking about autonomous drones.

[jjsacid]

at like 30k feet? or you mean around airports? anything like that would prob be gov missles

[chris izatt]

Scary and awesome at the same time.

[1utubemod5Rp3dos1]

yourmom airlines. funny. it's like they just want everything to be automated insecurely so it can go wrong.

[George Ou]

Since I can't include link, you can find my article by googling

"George Ou" ADS-B

[George Ou]

I wrote about ADS-B homing drones last year and why jetliners (high value targets) should avoid beacon accuracy of Navigation Accuracy Category (NAC) level 7 (less than 93 meter accuracy) or better. It would be relatively easy to fly a piston powered model plane controlled by an iPod Touch connected to a GPS with 3-meter accuracy in front of the path of a jetliner carrying a small payload. The model plane wouldn't need to be fast because it would be the jetliner that runs into the model plane.

[neotruekaiser]

if anything 'does' happen because of this, how much do you want to bet they blame the 'tools' he used. including the operating system, rather then the hole in security.