The next time you see "bull action in progress", "bomb alert", "air crash", or "terrorist incident" on your traffic-update enabled GPS navigation, don't be too quick to accept that's what in fact happened. Some "hackers" accept apparent a way to inject RDS letters (which use the FM abundance to forward cartage and acclimate information) into your GPS, triggering off a altered active bulletin depending on the message.
However, back a lot of GPS accessories don't yet accept cartage affiliation (the one that came with our car doesn't), this will not be a huge accord yet. But if these prankers acquisition out how to inject letters that acquaint you there's a gigantic cartage jam on one freeway in adjustment to move anybody to another—and appropriately allowance up cartage on the first—people will alpha to worry. – Jason Chen
Satellite aeronautics users at accident for apocryphal messages [ComputerWorld]
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