And with WAAS, the world is moving towards GPS approaches anyway. Even without careful planning anyone with a mildly powerful VHF radio and a yagi antenna can jam ILS, VORs and ATC comms rather effectively and has been able to since the end of WWII.
I've seen these articles pop up a few times in the past couple days but everyone in aviation already knows that there isn't any security on this stuff. People even jam ATC for giggles sometimes[1]. There's enough redundancy that nothing bad has happened as a result so everyone goes on with life. I think this is just low hanging defcon fruit targeting non aviation-aware readers.
I've seen these articles pop up a few times in the past couple days but everyone in aviation already knows that there isn't any security on this stuff. People even jam ATC for giggles sometimes[1]. There's enough redundancy that nothing bad has happened as a result so everyone goes on with life. I think this is just low hanging defcon fruit targeting non aviation-aware readers.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvA_-linhg8