The Rise of Navigation Systems
Remember paper maps? You’d take them out of the glove compartment or boot, unfold them, flip them around, and it would take you some ten minutes to find where you are on the map, before you could find where you were going. Later map books were a small improvement, but really [...]
Getting To Know GPS Technology
Once upon a time, this would have sounded like a science-fiction plot: We’re going to put an array of machines up in space orbiting the Earth, and use them to navigate the globe. Such audacity would only have been found in a Jules Verne novel.
But today, the Global Positioning System (GPS) [...]
Why You Should Take Tracking Your Loved Ones Seriously
The newest GPS technology and tracking devices has found a new purpose beyond tracking vehicles, to tracking people. Now, since this is still a new idea, one might be concerned about invading privacy, being too sheltering, or being a “helicopter parent,” as the derogatory phrase has it.
But [...]
Once upon the 20th century, we had the phreakers. Phreakers were phone hackers; they’d use various equipment and techniques to rig the public phone system, getting free calls, snooping on private calls, even running their own private network, and generally abusing the telephone system for naughty stuff. Then along came the computer age proper, and [...]
