On 10 July 2010 11:57, Jerry Leichter <leich...@lrw.com> wrote: > Beyond simple hacking - someone is quoted saying "You can consider GPS a > little like computers before the first virus - if I had stood here before > then and cried about the risks, you would've asked 'why would anyone > bother?'." - among the possible vulnerabilities are to high-value cargo, > armored cars, and rental cars tracked by GPS. As we build more and more > "location-aware" services, we are inherently building more > "false-location-vulnerable" services at the same time.
Most location-aware services should not care whether the location is real or false, for privacy reasons. Agree about the issue of high-value cargo (but I guess they'll just have to use more reliable mechanisms, like maps and their eyes), don't care about rental cars. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com