Starting over And companies are coming to cash in on that desire, offering their solutions to both government agencies and other industries. “Our founding hypothesis was ‘let’s take 50 years of lessons learned but throw out the rulebook and do a clean-sheet design of a new GPS system incorporating a couple of fundamentals,’” said Patrick… Read More: GPS is vulnerable to jamming—here’s how we might fix it »
Getty Images reader comments 14 with 14 posters participating Share this story The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of mysterious GPS interference that, over the past few days, has closed one runway at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and prompted some aircraft in the region to be rerouted to areas where signals were… Read More: GPS interference caused the FAA to reroute Texas air traffic.… »
Enlarge A security firm and the US government are advising the public to immediately stop using a popular GPS tracking device or to at least minimize exposure to it, citing a host of vulnerabilities that make it possible for hackers to remotely disable cars while they’re moving, track location histories, disarm alarms, and cut off… Read More: Critical flaws in GPS tracker enable “disastrous” and “life-threatening” hacks »
Enlarge / SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites launches from the Kennedy Space Center on October 6, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating Share this story Signals from SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites can be used to pinpoint locations on Earth to within eight meters of accuracy, engineering… Read More: Researchers use Starlink satellites to pinpoint location, similar to GPS »