GPS/Location Awareness

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Dealing Crack? There’s an app for that too!

Turn your iPhone into a “Cartel-o-Phone” Well it was just a matter of time before somebody figured this one out.  Recently an iPhone developer created an application known as “Drug Lords,” a program that would enable both drug-dealers and users to find one another in real time and space, thanks to the mobile phone’s built-in [...]

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Unlawful Assembly in Virtual Spaces Now Also Illegal

Many governments around the world have criminal statutes preventing “unlawful assembly” crimes.  Generally speaking, an unlawful assembly refers to a gathering of individuals who come together in order to commit an unlawful act or to behave in a violent, boisterous or tumultuous manner.  While nations around the world differ in their tolerance of public gatherings, [...]

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When Flash Mobs Become Crime Mobs

When people think of flash mobs, they tend to focus on the positive: 300 people showing up to dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller in a London tube station,  a relatively calm Worldwide Pillow Fight Day or even an impromptu Sound of Music performance in Antwerp’s (Belgium) central rail station. Yet as the below article demonstrates, [...]

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Hacking GPS and Satellite Navigation: Potential Criminal Payoffs

Given the growing dependence on location based services and GPS systems, it is clear that attacks on these core technologies will increase in the future.   As noted in the article below, many companies, especially those with expensive cargo, are gps-tagging their vehicles in order to be able to track them. Yet these weak signals are [...]

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Stolen GPS Devices Lead Criminals Back to Empty Homes

Here’s a new twist on GPS/Location awareness crimes.  While portable GPS devices have been a frequent favorite target for criminals, bad guys are now using the geolocation data to further target their victims.  Criminals have realized that the portable GPS device they had just stolen in a burglary from motor vehicle at the local mall [...]

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