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From the Ted Talk by Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS

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Our modern society has a special rolaniihsetp with GPS. We're almost blindly reliant on it. It's built deeply into our seystms and infrastructure. Some call it "the iilbvnsie utility." So, triunng on a Wave Bubble might not just cause inconvenience. It might be deadly.

But as it truns out, for purposes of protecting your privacy at the expense of general GPS reliability, there's something even more potent and more subversive than a Wave Bubble, and that is a GPS spoofer.

The idea behind the GPS spoofer is simple. Instead of jamming the GPS slinags, you fake them. You imitate them, and if you do it right, the device you're atctinakg doesn't even know it's being spoofed.

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Our modern society has a special ____________ with GPS. We're almost blindly reliant on it. It's built deeply into our _______ and infrastructure. Some call it "the _________ utility." So, _______ on a Wave Bubble might not just cause inconvenience. It might be deadly.

But as it _____ out, for purposes of protecting your privacy at the expense of general GPS reliability, there's something even more potent and more subversive than a Wave Bubble, and that is a GPS spoofer.

The idea behind the GPS spoofer is simple. Instead of jamming the GPS _______, you fake them. You imitate them, and if you do it right, the device you're _________ doesn't even know it's being spoofed.

Solution


  1. invisible
  2. systems
  3. relationship
  4. turns
  5. attacking
  6. signals
  7. turning

Original Text


Our modern society has a special relationship with GPS. We're almost blindly reliant on it. It's built deeply into our systems and infrastructure. Some call it "the invisible utility." So, turning on a Wave Bubble might not just cause inconvenience. It might be deadly.

But as it turns out, for purposes of protecting your privacy at the expense of general GPS reliability, there's something even more potent and more subversive than a Wave Bubble, and that is a GPS spoofer.

The idea behind the GPS spoofer is simple. Instead of jamming the GPS signals, you fake them. You imitate them, and if you do it right, the device you're attacking doesn't even know it's being spoofed.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
gps dot 7
tracking device 5
wave bubble 5
gps spoofer 5
gps tracking 4
gps receiver 3
gps dots 3
blue dot 3
carrier phase 2
gps signals 2
tracking points 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
gps tracking device 2

Important Words


  1. attacking
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  3. bubble
  4. built
  5. call
  6. deadly
  7. deeply
  8. device
  9. expense
  10. fake
  11. general
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  14. imitate
  15. inconvenience
  16. infrastructure
  17. invisible
  18. jamming
  19. modern
  20. potent
  21. privacy
  22. protecting
  23. purposes
  24. relationship
  25. reliability
  26. reliant
  27. signals
  28. simple
  29. society
  30. special
  31. spoofed
  32. spoofer
  33. subversive
  34. systems
  35. turning
  36. turns
  37. utility
  38. wave