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Secret UK Network Hunts GPS Jammers
garymortimer writes "A secret network of 20 roadside listening stations across the UK has confirmed that criminals are attempting to jam GPS signals on a regular basis. From the article: 'Government-funded trials involving the police have revealed more than a hundred incidents of GPS jammer use in the UK.
The Sentinel project, which has been running since January 2011, was designed to measure GPS jamming on UK roads. The project, run by GPS-tracking company Chronos Technology, picked up the illegal jamming incidents via four GPS sensors in trials lasting from two to six months per location.'"
[Meaconing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaconing) the GPS signal using the encoder, (and...) sending the British frigate HMS Devonshire off-course in the South China Sea
sag
But that's just stupid! You don't have to invest in a GPS jammer, which is illegal probably in most places too. You can just wrap your whole care in tinfoil. TA-DA!
I remember this being in the news, it nearly started a war. Luckily some English chap and a Chinese bird managed to stop Rupert Murdock before it was too late.
I wondered about the same thing and found it stupid that the summary didn't mention it. You shouldn't have to read the article to get that information.
You shouldn't even have to read the summary. Slashdot should just telepathically transmit the information directly into your brain.
You must be new to America.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
We don't have odometers. We have mileometers. :)
But on the garlicontinent they have kilometerometers.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Hmm, I think the signal's being jammed...
Broadcasting a signal on GPS frequencies...this seems stupid even by criminal standards. It's just asking to be stopped/searched (assuming the police get detectors, which they probably will after this report).
You make the assumption that this is something done by common criminals that can be caught. This is the UK we are talking about - the more likely rational is that the queen is having them jammed to spur uptake of Galileo based consumer devices and prevent people from ordering things from overseas while simultaneous helping justify the expenditure of a largely military network filling a niche already covered by an "ally" whose media the country has been infiltrating and skewing to generate an unproductive populace for over half a century. The still want their colonies back after-all.
Jammed? Raspberry! There's only one man who would dare give me Raspberry. CowboyNeal !
The mistake you make is thinking that such an intelligent idea would be used by a group of people who think that holding a handgun sideways is a good thing.
Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
Redirect a GPS equipped armored car to your secret criminal location and land it safely.
(In a Wells Fargo truck)
Mike: Hey, uh, Bob, WHERE THE HELL are we going?
Bob: GPS says the bank is just up ahead.
Mike: The GPS says the bank is in that abandoned looking warehouse?
Bob: It also says that we should throw our guns out the window now.
Mike: (unholstering) What did we do before these things were invented?