An investigation into malfunctioning GPS system of rules at Newark Liberty International Airport revealed that the perpetrator is thecheap jammer that are easy to buy online .
Like aerodrome across the rural area , Newark Liberty is in the process of elevate its piloting to the GPS - based NextGen system that has been project by the government for ages . harmonize to the news report by Bloomberg , one of the new systems used by the airport was inexplicably turn on and off without warning . It turns out that truckers are to blame . Just a air mile from the airport truckers cruise down the New Jersey Turnpike are using GPS jammers so that their bosses ca n’t tell their whereabouts .
GPS jammers are illegal and give off waves a billion times ( ! ) more powerful that your ordinary GPS signal . They ’re also incredibly easy to buy online and the paper raises an important question : As GPS becomes progressively vital to our national infrastructure , should we be worried that these systems are apparently so easy to foil ? [ Bloomberg ]
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