Flutterby™! : GPS spoofing OTD

Ars Technica: A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into oncoming traffic * is a bit of an overstatement, but the general point that if you get someone in an unfamiliar place who's overly reliant on GPS you can seriously mess with them, and that this has implications for automated vehicles, is a good one:

“Our study demonstrated the initial feasibility of manipulating the road navigation system through targeted GPS spoofing,” the researchers, from Virginia Tech, China’s University of Electronic Sciences and Technology, and Microsoft Research, wrote in an 18-page paper. “The threat becomes more realistic as car makers are adding autopilot features so that human drivers can be less involved (or completely disengaged).”