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DEFCON 20: Hacker + Airplanes = No Good Can Come Of This

Christiaan008 · talk · Watch on YouTube

Security & hackingAviation & aerospace engineering

What it is

A DEF CON 20 talk by RenderMan on the security weaknesses of ADS-B, the unencrypted, unauthenticated aircraft tracking broadcast. It shows how easily the data can be spoofed and what that means for security designed in too late.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited whenever aviation or vehicle communication security comes up, as the standard demonstration that ADS-B is naively designed and trivially spoofable.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “Good watch if you wanna see how naively designed the whole thing is.”

    Shows how naively designed aircraft communication systems are

    arma26, 2016-09 · Recommendation · in “FAA Poised to Take on Role as Traffic Cop for Space”

  2. “See an interesting DefCon talk from a few years ago”

    DefCon talk on lack of security in ADS-B transmissions

    etimberg, 2017-07 · Recommendation · in “Killing car privacy by federal mandate”

  3. “You may find this interesting”

    Semi-hypothetical talk on insecure wireless communication directly with aircraft

    wiseleo, 2019-09 · Recommendation · in “Wireless attacks on aircraft instrument landing systems”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: ads-b, defcon, spoofing, aircraft tracking, wireless security

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