Too easy. I'm not impressed. Now hacking the space segment in order to get the flight you want - that's impressive. :)
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Mark Newton wrote: > Amazing the kind of stuff that's available off-the-shelf these days. > > I reckon if you put one of these and a IGC-approved logger into a > barometric chamber, you can create the world record datalogger trace > of your choice: > http://labsat.co.uk/ > > The labsat unit takes a GPS or GNSS datafile and plays it back as RF, > so a nearby GPS device will actually believe that it has followed the > course described by the trace. With a barometric chamber you get the > pressure altitude axis as well. The result will be a datafile you > can extract from your IGC-approved logger which says pretty much > whatever you want it to say. > > It costs about UKP7000, so you might want to buy into one in a > syndicate with other like-minded cheats. "Tell you what, I'll > claim the distance record, why don't you claim the speed-around- > a-300km-triangle record?" > > Meanwhile, there're also ways of preventing other people from getting > logger traces. For about twenty bucks you can get one of these: > http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.35827 > Couple it with a 12V power source and hide it in the tiedown kit bag > in whichever aircraft is at the top of a competition leaderboard to > produce a "I would have won that comp if it weren't for that goddamn > GPS malfunction!" result. Maybe you're not even competing in the > comp, you just want to stir trouble 'cos you're taking the piss. > > It comes with free delivery :-) > > The equipment required to both forge and sabotage GPS traces is > readily available off-the-shelf at prices that individuals can afford. > > For how long will GPS continue to be trusted for world record and > competition claims? Will we get back to using barographs and cameras? > Are the requirements on official observers good enough to protect against > forgery? > > I love the 21st century :-) > > - mark > Cheers -- Peter F Bradshaw: http://www.exadios.com (public keys avaliable there). Personal site: http://personal.exadios.com "I love truth, and the way the government still uses it occasionally to keep us guessing." - Sam Kekovich. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
