Taking two ships involved in ballistic missile defense in the same region of the world out of commission....

Makes a good conspiracy theory, but I doubt it.

Did you read the article? It talked more about commercial shipping than ABM.

I did read it....

Very unlikely. I'm not sure what hacking somebody's GPS does to cause two ships to collide...I would think that ships are similar to airplanes...you use GPS for your current position, and other sensors to avoid hitting things, like radar and visual lookout.

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I think the ships' autopilots use gps to steer the ships.

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Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

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Sure, but when you need to maneuver to avoid something that you've detected using another sensor, you take it off autopilot. Hopefully Slowguy will chime in here with his thoughts.

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Great. Next we will have planes falling from the sky.

"Such spoofing once required expensive equipment and deep software coding skills. But Humphreys said it can now be done with off-the-shelf gear and easily attainable software."

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"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

I think it is time we look into what these two are up too. There is only one guy who can do it.

Here I thought this was going to be about Pokemon go and someone GPS spoofing to get their pikachu

Even if you managed to hack GPS, ships still have visual and radar means for collision avoidance. If someone was hacking GPS, people would likely catch on pretty quickly that something was wrong. At best an unreliable and complicated means of creating mischief on relatively slow moving vessels.

And if your signal was traced, there would be hell to pay as messing with international shipping would be a sure way to draw ire from all nations.