Boeing to patent anti-spoofing navigation blockchain

The official USPTO website has a new filing which indicates that the famous aviation construction company that among other things develops navigation systems for place wants to get a patent for a special modification of blockchain designed for air navigation.

The filing states that the system will erase the possibility of some technologically advanced miscreants trying to replace the coordinates in GPS navigators aboard. This replacement is often called spoofing. Lately, there were reports in the media about the growth of strange occasions when the GPS navigators did not indicate the true location, and it was due to some third party rather than the fault of the device.

A special system of coordinates verification will be used. It will duplicate the usual sensors. In case they sense wrong, the system will report this and get the true coordinates from the center via this blockchain.

Recent examples of GPS spoofing include the navigation problems of ships in the Black Sea, and some media outlets suspect the Russian special services. And there’s more: similar problems happened to drivers in Moscow near the Kremlin, and a member of a prominent software company tried to investigate that case.