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"$80mil yacht uses same GPS as a $80 sell phone, the 6 zeros dont change that." When gauging the newsworthy-ness of a problem, the scope of its impact is alway
by hawkharris 13y ago
"$80mil yacht uses same GPS as a $80 sell phone, the 6 zeros dont change that."
When gauging the newsworthy-ness of a problem, the scope of its impact is always one of the first factors that journalists consider.
- beat 13y agoOr the appearance of scope. An $80M yacht sounds impressive, but widespread hacking of a million $80 phones would be far more potentially awful.
- manarth 13y agoAn $80M yacht sounds impressive…but if it were a tanker full of crude, the outcome could be rather more newsworthy.
- hawkharris 13y agoThat's true. But I think a big reason this story is newsworthy is because the author connects it to what might be a much broader threat: The scientists who conducted the experiment — done with permission of the yacht’s owners — say their ability to broadcast counterfeit GPS signals that triggered no alarms within the ship’s navigation system highlights a serious flaw in transportation networks on land and sea. Some 90 percent of the world’s freight moves by sea.