Chinese companies fueling theft of luxury cars with cheap GPS-jammers: The Telegraph
What's New: Well... perhaps not new. We have reported on jammers and car thefts before. It has been a while, though. And the availability of sophisticated jamming and spoofing devices has certainly increased.
Why It's Important: Deliberate interference with GPS/GNSS is illegal in most places. And it is linked to all kinds of nefarious activities.
What Else to Know:
Chinese companies fueling theft of luxury cars with cheap GPS-jammers
Thieves block signals from vehicles’ tracking devices, making them harder to recover
Matt Oliver, INDUSTRY EDITOR28 April 2024 • 7:44pm
A wave of luxury vehicle thefts on Britain’s streets is being fueled by Chinese companies selling cheap jamming devices, experts have warned.
The jammers, which can block GPS, mobile phone and radio signals, range from cheaper, low-powered devices covering a couple of metres to more powerful ones capable of blocking signals within a distance of 100 metres or more.
This allows car thieves to steal vehicles and then car thieves to steal vehicles and then block signals from any tracking devices, making it much harder to discover their whereabouts once they have been taken.
Creative Geosensing
7moNot new at all ! Ask British people … by the way who invented the GPS jammer ? A student of the MIT ! As he scared about what he developped, he put it in open source libraries … so who is guilty ?
Engineer
7moThis topic is hilarious, sure Britain as it pure and innocent as it can be, there is no such things as car theft before the invention of gps jammer, esp by the Chinese