Comments on: GPS Hacking Helps Thieves Steal Trucks, and Could Let Traders Cheat the Stock Market

By: Travis Ehrenstrom

Travis Ehrenstrom — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:02:36 +0000

Nothing like reading a blog and finding out how feeble our critical technologies are… Thanks for your insight on this, and as scary as it is, I’m glad you’ve brought attention to this issue.

GPS technology has become a terrifyingly important technology in the average Americans day to day, and I think few know how unstable it is. Even with the tracking discrepancies brought to light in the iPhone probes, people still hold little or no regard to their safety location.

I appreciate your post on this and I think we can be prepared to see more of this type of problem in the coming days.

By: m

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:52:39 +0000

#Bob white, not speculation, is true.
#Barb I cant even recall the nuance in effected and affected anymore, people that study language think its more than a means to an end. Most intelligent people know its a representation of information and that double checking and triple checking is more appropriate in the real-world. Therefore any sentence should actually be said twice or thrice to have any bearing on an intelligent person…we are talking iq’s about 100 times above teachers here…about 20 points.
#Vicki you have no idea what driver safety is nor do the people that expressed a concern for it. I believe there is a you-tube video of china or some country that shows an intersection of traffic. That my dear friend is driver safety. Release the shackles imposed on you by idiots, turn off traffic lights and youll see safety jump a hundred fold. Remove bad drivers who cannot learn to drive effectively by giving them bus tickets. Also remove people who think driving with a knife pointed at you from the steering wheel is a practice that ensures safe driving…. Safe driving is concentration and a vehicle thats capabilities are known by the driver …nothing more. Its not a hard equation. Be it fast or slow, preferably faster…the driver uses more concentration.

Ill give you the equation and for all mankind once and only once, youll never see it again.
concentration + vehicle knowledge = safe driver.

When i talk about vehicle knowledge im talking about the instinct to know the torque of the vehicle, tyre grip front and back, suspension, width, breaking distance, acceleration time.

Concentraion includes too many to mention.

By: 57charlie

57charlie — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:47:00 +0000

Some of the ankle monitors/tethers used to keep track of offenders under judicial “house arrest” employ GPS monitoring systems as well as RF transmitters. So, can these monitors also be jammed to mask/hide their location from authorities?

By: Barb Hoffmann

Barb Hoffmann — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:31:54 +0000

Sorry, the English teacher in me notices these things. I’m sure the author of this article meant “affected” not “effected.” Easy to happen when one is under time pressure.

Tests found that every major system was *effected* by a device with less than 1/1000 the power of a cell phone.

We always enjoy DISCOVER.

Ed: Fixed.

By: VickiE

VickiE — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:51:06 +0000

GPS jammers – nothing to hide? So just enjoy the benefits
Andrew Yeoman, Managing Director of Trimble UK writes in his recent blog:
The finding by the Sentinel study that drivers in the UK are illegally using GPS jammers to mask their whereabouts raises some interesting issues for those driving vehicles fitted with tracking devices.

Without doubt when in-vehicle technology was initially introduced it was received with suspicion by workers and trade unions alike, but gone are the days when the technology is simply used to ‘track and trace’ vehicles. The new generation of telematics technology offers huge benefits to both workers and businesses – the value comes from making the best use of what the technology is actually reporting and why.

The most obvious benefit to a worker who is out in the field – as opposed to be office-based – is safety. All businesses have a duty of care for the health and safety of their employees and for the majority of those who work in an office – this is a relatively straightforward responsibility. Managing individuals – and potentially tens of thousands of individuals – working out of offices, perhaps driving for a significant amount of their day and often working on their own becomes far more complicated.

Driver safety is a growing concern – more than half of the fleet managers we’ve surveyed across the UK fleet industry consider driver safety to be a priority and major challenge – and recent developments in telematics technology have allowed the management of this far more easily.

GPS and telematics technology can now easily monitor a worker’s location, status and driving behaviour as well as vehicle condition in real time meaning businesses can have real visibility in to those drivers or vehicles that may pose the biggest risk of accident or breakdown.

We have certainly seen a shift in the reasons why investment in this type technology is being made. More and more businesses want to try and bring ease and efficiency out in to the field and provide customers with a better understanding of arrival times and more accurate billing so there are benefits that hit the bottom line and go beyond just knowing where a vehicle is.

As with so many things, knowledge is key – and now with the recent leaps in telematics technology businesses and workers can benefit from improved efficiency, reduced costs, improved compliance and greatly enhanced safety.

This brings obvious benefits to the business, the customer and the worker/driver out in the field. There is nothing to hide or fear and everything to gain.

By: Bob White

Bob White — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:29:00 +0000

There is speculation that Iran used a jammer to misdirect the drone that landed there recently.