Blog Editor’s Note – Good “awareness” article in Ars Technica discussing offerings from Regulus.
Full disclosure – Regulus is an RNTF corporate supporter. Other companies, including other RNTF supporters, also offer solutions & mitigations for jamming and spoofing.
We are in favor of folks doing whatever they can to protect themselves.
YOUR GPS RECEIVER IS GLOWING WITH A FAINT BLUE GLOW —
Preventing GPS spoofing is hard—but you can at least detect it
This GPS spoofing defense software looks promising, but it’s short on detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=fJwEpcAQou0
Regulus is, unfortunately, playing its cards extremely close to the vest in terms of how the system works. “We’ve learned how to perceive anomalies between legitimate GNSS signals and spoofed signals by researching the variations in the satellite signals protocol and recognizing the inter-relationships between signal parameters,” CTO and co-founder Yoav Zangvil explains in the press release; this and the system diagram supplied to Ars don’t add up to much beyond “this works.” The video demonstration was convincing, however, both in its minor frustrations (the unprotected iPhone was slow to acknowledge the spoofed GPS signal and begin “moving”) as well as its successes.
Ars requested a test kit, but Regulus Cyber’s attorneys denied it due to concerns around “teaching someone to hack GPS.” Assuming Pyramid GNSS holds up under more rigorous, hands-on testing—and Regulus can convince OEMs to license it—its software-only nature should lend itself to easy, widespread adoption, particularly in Android and other Linux-based devices.
Listing image by Martin Vorel / Libreshot
