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Comment by fuoqi | Hacker News Reader

The article implies that AIS was spoofed by the Russian side, but I find it more likely it was a case of trolling from the Ukranian side. Considering that USA and Russia have significant SIGINT capabilities in the region, finding source of the signal and determining that its a fake one should be quite easy for them. And it goes without saying that any competent military will not trust easily spoofable AIS data.

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1. Geopolitical trolling is not a Ukrainian thing, like at all (but definitely is Russian, even through official embassy accounts)

2. They would never do something as dumb when it comes to NATO or the US. There is zero reason to.

So, you have to define what the actual trolling here would be.

You are saying that Ukraine has zero reason to do this and not so subtly alluding to that it's Russia who did it. But what benefit does Russia derive from this then?

For example, Russia could create disinformation that implicates NATO for some incident.

And that is somehow a better reason than Ukrainians aggravating Russia near its borders whilst there's convenient NATO presence there?

Hey, at least Ukraine is within its borders, unlike some other countries nearby.

What do you mean?

> finding source of the signal and determining that its a fake one should be quite easy for them.

You can do it from your basement:

* https://flightaware.com/adsb/mlat/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateration

* http://www.multilateration.com/surveillance/multilateration....

I don't see how it implies Russia was at fault, asking NATO for comment but not Russia seems like they're blaming NATO.

Where does the article suggest that the AIS data was spoofed by the Russian side? I see a suggestion that it was spoofed, but not by who.

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