Wednesday, 4. July 2012
Topic: Phone - on July 4, 2012 at 12:35:00 PM CEST
GPS spoofing countermeasures: Your smartphone already has them
BAE Systems gets to where Google was in 2007-odd
Analysis There's suddenly a lot of panic about GPS satellite navigation spoofing, and BAE Systems among others would like to sell the military some tech to resist it. But in fact, most modern smartphones already have strong countermeasures against this sort of thing.
UK-headquartered but largely US-based BAE's latest grab for government pork is a GPS companion which uses other transmissions, such as TV and cellular sites, to confirm a location fix, just as Google started doing in 2007, and others had been doing well before that.
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