Many US agencies have been issuing warnings to users advising them to contact the manufacturer of their GPS receiver. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is likely to supply inaccurate information or fail completely as the satellite-based service...
By adding a GPS receiver, war-drivers can create a database of the location and name of wireless networks, and there are websites that store this data and allow anyone to search it to see what wireless networks are out there.
Signals transmitted from Giove-A, short for Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element A, were broken after the researchers intercepted them using a roof-mounted hemispherical patch antenna and a digital storage receiver.
The satellite terminal is fitted with a GPS receiver so it knows exactly where it is. To link up to the BGAN network users need a 'satellite terminal' - which is about the size of an A4 pad and costs around $500 - that acts as an antenna to talk to...
A joint compatibility and interoperability working group has been working since 2004 to design an interoperable signal system that can bring together signals from the European Union's Galileo satellite system and the GPS satellites run by the US.
The popularity of consumer sat-nav devices is fuelling the market for GPS receiver chips, with one billion chips now forecast to ship annually by 2013, says analyst house ABI Research. ABI Research analyst, Jamie Moss, said in a statement: "Handset...
Did you find this white paper useful? 3 out of 8 users found this white paper useful
White Paper RSS
Download
Register
