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I agree, that makes little sense of giving away such a capacity outside of an armed conflict. Anyway, there were 4 collisions in this area this year (we mostly talked about the 2 with loss of life) so there may still be a more fundamental problem to solve than individual negligence.

Just to play devil's advocate, here are a few hypothesis that could make malice have more sense in that case:

- The enemy has the capacity to spoof this but knows that it will soon be removed. May as well use it.

- The enemy knows that this vulnerability will not work on ships that are in conflict mode and is interested in removing two ships from the existing fleet in preparation of a conflict.

Pretty weak hypothesis if you ask me. Anyway, I can't say I am sad at seeing media and the general public talk a bit more seriously about cyber security.