Chris Baraniuk
Hundreds and hundreds of ships. But they're all in the wrong place. "Oh my goodness," says Michelle Wiese Bockmann, senior maritime intelligence analyst at Windward, a maritime AI company, as she checks the live positions broadcast by commercial vessels in waters off Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
"I'm up to… 35 different clusters," she says, looking at a map of the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding areas. The clusters she mentions are weird circles of icons layered over the map, with each icon representing a real ship. But ships don't bunch together in tight, unnaturally perfect circles. And they also don't hover over land – which is where some of the clusters appear. No, their GPS coordinates have been disrupted, obfuscating their true location.
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