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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 88 points 1 week ago (4 children)

*Cant be Non-magnetically hacked

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Cue magnetic mines, but where are you getting the gravitic mines from?

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If it works off tiny changes in gravity, a really big rock would work.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Our mission is to sneak this Ayers rock under the boat without being detected. In and out. 45 minutes tops.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 week ago

I was going to say something about the scale of gravity changes needed, but your take is way better. Cheers.

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Most people probably don’t know but we call it Uluru these days as that’s what the local Aboriginal people named it. Ayers Rock is the old coloniser name, and pretty out of fashion.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I know and I am sorry, but the joke would have gone over the head for most of the people if I had said Uluru.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

And that rock? The moon.

[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Well, to be fair, a big rock would also work on a GPS device, if applied directly to it.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

It's a bit obvious that isn't it. Hey captain there appears to be a ship with a giant boulder on board and it's following us around, do you think that might be relevant?

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

Might as well just hit the ship with a really big rock at that rate

[–] masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Ah time to make use of my massive tungsten cube

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

They just trigger degauss on 10,000 CRT monitors simultaneously.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't think it's realistically possible to do that totally undetected. Since the earth's magnetic field is so weak and field strength goes down rapidly as distance increases, malicious actors probably couldn't spoof patterns well enough to make the data look real, at least not without coming very close and staying near their target.

Just sell initially fake map

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

You don't need to hack the quantum sensor. You'll hack the regular computer around the sensor.