Tim Mak7h ago

Good morning to readers. #Oil prices have surpassed $103 per barrel (+42% pre-war).

#GPS spoofing is scrambling #flights across the Middle #East, Turning the sky into a map of the war.

Ian at #Flightradar24 tells us how much we rely on GPS to keep the world moving.

https://www.iranwar.news/p/can-we-trust-gps-anymore

Can we trust GPS anymore?

GPS spoofing used to stop drones and missiles is also scrambling civilian flight data across the Middle East, making the war visible in the sky.

Iran War Dispatches with Tim Mak
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Through #flight tracking, you can see a scar in the #sky – a zone where civilian aircraft dare not venture.
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On tracking websites like #Flightradar24, the entire map of the second-largest country in the #Middle East is barren of the usual little yellow plane icons. Iraq is mostly blank too, as is #Syria, #Lebanon, #Israel, #Jordan, and #Kuwait. The #UAE depends on the day.
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If you zoom in on an individual #flight, you might also see something stranger — jagged squiggly flight paths that look more like an EKG monitor than an airplane route. That’s #GPS spoofing, and it’s one massive part of this war that will affect all of us.
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The night the #United #States and Israel launched their first strikes on Iran, visitors to #Flightradar24’s site doubled said Ian Petchenik, their director of communications and long-time #aviation expert.
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On March 26, a drone attack near #Dubai International #Airport forced flight disruptions for the third time since the war began, not to mention the wave of strikes across the #Middle #East that has shut down airspace from #Iran to the #Gulf.
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As millions of people watch the Iran war unfold on flight-tracking mapss, they are seeing something unusual: aircraft positions jumping, zigzagging, and disapearing.
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These distortions are largely caused by #GPS spoofing, the deliberate transmission of fake GPS signals designed to make devices think they are somewhere else.
Show threadTim Mak7h ago
This technology, which is used to confuse drones and missiles, is now inadvertently disrupting the GPS trackers that we use every day — from civilian planes to tracking a shipment to #Google #Maps.
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Show threadTim Mak7h ago

THE LATEST NEWS AT THIS HOUR:

#ISRAEL CLAIMED IT #KILLED #IRAN SECURITY #CHIEF AND BASIJ COMMANDER: Israel said it killed senior Iranian official Ali Larijani and Basij commander Gholamreza Soleimani in strikes. #Iran has not confirmed this.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/17/israel-says-it-has-killed-ali-larijani-irans-top-security-official

Israel says it’s killed Larijani, Iran’s security chief and Basij commander

Israel’s Defence Minister Katz has claimed that Iran’s security chief has been assassinated

Al Jazeera
Show threadTim Mak7h ago

U.S. #GENERAL LEAVES CLASSIFIED MATERIAL ON #TRAIN: Maj. Gen. Antonio Aguto, overseeing U.S. support for #Ukraine, left classified maps on a train to #Poland and suffered a concussion after heavy drinking in #Kyiv, a #Pentagon report said. The maps were recovered by the U.S. #Embassy the next day. #Aguto accepted responsibility, and medical exams confirmed his injuries.

https://thehill.com/homenews/5786917-us-army-general-alcohol-incident/

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@timkmak meanwhile,those among us who were entrusted with classified material, but are not sufficiently up there in chain to be immune to consequences could go to jail for leaving a SCIF with piece of paper, even if it'syour hand written notes about something not classified.

Cool, cool...

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