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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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    Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL