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GPS Jamming for $50

Posted by michael on from the missile-defense-starts-at-home dept.

Anonymous writes "One of the newest hacker tools out there is a homemade GPS jammer. According to this article in Computerworld, such jammers can be built with $50 worth of electrical parts. Phrack has published a how-to aimed at inexpensive GPS-based navigation and "hidden tracking devices.""

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  1. whoa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    radio signals can be jammed?

    Who'da thunk it?

    Damn, next thing you'll tell me light can be blocked by opaque objects!

  2. Re:Car Rentals by GMontag · · Score: 4, Funny

    OMG! Emmanuel from 2600 and Off the Hook is using one of these GPS equipped cars to navagate the western USA right now! Just listen to the Jan. 15 2003 show at the link.

    If someone jams a New Yorker in Nevada, what are the odds of them finding their way back to NYC without a subway map ;-)

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  3. Hacker tools? by torpor · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... writes "One of the newest hacker tools out there is a homemade GPS jammer ...

    Okay then. What are some of the 'other' newest hacker 'tools' out there?

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  4. Re:how about a cell phone jammer? by seen2much · · Score: 2, Funny

    No freaking kidding. I was at the local safeway about an two hours ago and every doofus in the place was on his/her cell phone. One guy was even bragfging to his friend about how he just peed in the woman's restroom. He was coming from the direction of the toilets so it made me wonder if he was using in while pissing.

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  5. Re:Older soldier aren't soldiering... by mpe · · Score: 1, Funny

    Even before GPS, US units would get lost regularly on exercises in Germany due to poor map reading skills.

    Rather fewer landmarks in Iraq than Germany too.

  6. Re:Iraq? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Of course not - we needed the MONEY we spent on them to insure our re-election...

    Ohh my god. Somebody gave Reagan a computer.

  7. It takes a hacker ... by YetAnotherName · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... to actually make use of the Phrack article:
    Below is the schematic diagram (gps_jammer.ps) in an uuencoded gzipped PostScript file. This is the native Xcircuit[12] format and is used for ease of viewing, printing and modification.
    How many FBI agents weaned on Windows will it take to get past the first hurdle: uuencoding?

    (What a straight-line.)