Christopher Mims
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 17 Mar
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Coming up... We've gotten to the point where all of our devices just assume that GPS is going to be there for us.
GPS jammers really took off with the conflict in Ukraine because Ukraine was relying on GPS for two things.
One was to help guide their drones.
And then also because there are a number of so-called smart bombs, smart munitions that were relying on GPS in order to find their target.
And Russia figured this out pretty quickly.
And according to some public testimony, the effectiveness of one GPS guided bomb that the U.S.
used to use a lot went from 70 percent hit rate to 6 percent hit rate in the span of just a few months.
Yeah, it's worse than that.
There's a ton of spoofing happening in the Street of Horror movies, which is a little more sophisticated.
That's where you have a device that's smart enough to guess what signal a GPS receiver is looking for and send out a more powerful version of the GPS signal that usually comes from satellites.
But it's a little bit off.
It can make your GPS receiver think that you are very far away from where you actually are.
People will sometimes use very small GPS jammers if, for example, they don't want some kind of maybe company-mandated tracking device to be operational.
So that obviously is a gray area.
So, for example, there was a New Jersey truck driver who was fined almost $32,000 by the FCC after his truck's GPS jammer disrupted air traffic control signals.
Yeah, I had readers reach out to me and say, oh, this is old news.
You know, I live in Israel and you go outside, your phone is not going to tell you accurately where you are because GPS just doesn't exist.
We have just gotten to the point where all of our devices just assume that GPS is going to be there for us.
They have their origins in the defense industry.
Those systems are very expensive.
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