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phillc73 on Nov 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cutting the speed of ships has benefits for humans...

AIS can be turned off. This does raise red flags, but it doesn't seem to stop ships doing it, about 20 million times.[1][2]

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ships-turn-off-tracking-syst...

[2] https://usa.oceana.org/publications/reports/avoiding-detecti...

beerandt on Nov 12, 2019 [–]

It's also trivial to spoof.

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