Researchers have developed kit that masquerades as GPS satellites to deceive nearby GPS receivers and thus potentially trick drivers into heading off in the wrong direction. The team – a trio of groups at Microsoft, Virginia Tech in the US, and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China – detailed in a paper out this month that, by spoofing the packets of data sent to smartphones and cars’ built-in navigation systems from orbiting positioning satellites, they can remotely change the routes with up to 95 per cent accuracy.

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