GPS Vulnerabilities Study -- Info Request

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/26.02.html#subj16

GPS jamming - request for information (notsp)
Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:28:47 +0100

I'm currently leading a study by the UK Royal Academy of information
into
GPS (and more generally GNSS) usage and vulnerabilities.

It's clear that the current GPS signal is easy to jam (and that it is
jammed
quite often for criminal and counter-criminal purposes), so one might
predict that this would become more frequent as the incentives
increase.

I understand that GPS is used for road tolls in the Netherlands and in
Germany (for lorries). If this is true, is there any evidence that it
has
led to jamming? If it has, what consequences have there been?

Thanks for any help, on or off list. [PREFERABLE OFF LIST, hoping
that
Martyn will summarize the interesting responses -- if relevant.
PGN]


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I think he meant to say the Royal Academy of Engineering, not
"Information". Their web site links to this:

http://www.insidegnss.com/node/1934#Baseband_Technologies_Inc_

The author seems to be quite legitimate:

http://www.theiet.org/publicaffairs/panels/it/thomas.cfm

and is indeed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Engineering:

http://www.raeng.org.uk/about/fellowship/fellowslist.htm?Page=63&Size=20

Had to look up "CBE" -- apparently 2 ranks higher than John, Paul,
George, or Ringo ever attained:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire

=3D20

Martyn,

Due to the collapse of our government about one month ago the plans
for road tolling
have been postponed. We are all very curious what a new government is
going to do
in the fielde of road tolling.

Cheers,

Sam