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[ PRIVACY Forum ] "Fun" with a $30 GPS Jammer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Tue Mar 8 15:04:01 2011
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:33:20 -0800
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"Fun" with a $30 GPS Jammer
http://j.mp/f3Gy9G (New Scientist)
"In the tower at the airport, air-traffic controllers peered at their
monitors only to find that their system for tracking incoming planes
was malfunctioning. At the Naval Medical Center, emergency pagers used
for summoning doctors stopped working. Chaos threatened in the busy
harbour, too, after the traffic-management system used for guiding
boats failed. On the streets, people reaching for their cellphones
found they had no signal and bank customers trying to withdraw cash
from local ATMs were refused. Problems persisted for another 2 hours."
--Lauren--
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