High Seas Deception: How Shady Ships Use GPS to Evade International Law

A technology enabling the transmission of fake locations to carry out murky
or even illegal business operations could have profound implications for the
enforcement of international law.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/03/world/americas/high-seas-deception-how-shady-ships-use-gps-to-evade-international-law.html

 [Jan Wolitsky noted that this is
   Somewhat misleading, as the technology involved doesn't involve altering
   any GPS signals, but rather the AIS (Automatic Identification Systems)
   signal, which uses GPS to transmit position information.  The "similar
   satellite transponder" used by aircraft, mentioned but unnamed in the
   article, is ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast). …

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