Turning GPS Tracking Devices Against Their Owners

ancientribe writes "Those low-cost embedded tracking devices in your smartphone or those personal GPS devices that track the whereabouts of your children, your car, your pet, or a shipment can easily be intercepted by hackers, who can then pinpoint their whereabouts, impersonate them, and spoof their physical location. A researcher demonstrated at SOURCE Boston how he was able to hack Zoombak's popular personal tracking devices."

Comments

Matter of time

[jhoegl]

As a consumer, I assumed security.
As a technological thinker, I feared this.

say it isn't so!

[Nyder]

Technology can be hacked and used against you? Dang.

Note to self:

[Locke2005]

Leave my cell at home when I'm out cheating on my wife.