2025

Security and Defence Quarterly

Rocznik: 2025 | Tom: Online first | Numer: -

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EN This article focuses on the capabilities of criminals in using radiofrequency interference (RFI) devices to target systems that use the Global Positioning System (GPS). Surveying over a 22-year period during which GPS has been widely used by many industries, it seeks to understand how the electronic threat has evolved and changed. Focusing on the accessibility, usability, effectiveness, versatility, transportability, and concealability of RFI devices, and utilising a number of sources from engineering disciplines, hacker events, and media pieces, it argues that the more reliant we are on GPS, the more threat actors’ target choices and means, ends, and, indeed, motivations for targeting systems will expand, elevating the risks to GPS users. This article finds that arguably some of the most disagreeable actors have elevated from unsophisticated to semi-sophisticated in the space of 20 years, and can target systems cheaply, easily, and effectively. In the space of two decades, the combination of war, the expansion of digitalisation, the commercialisation of military systems, and the demand and supply that feeds technological innovations, have left us with an entirely different threat picture.

20.01.2025

10.35467/sdq/196515.

https://securityanddefence.pl/Lethal-empowerment-and-electronic-crime-A-focus-on-radio-frequency-interference-capabilities,196515,0,2.html

Corresponding author Tegg Westbrook Department of Safety, Economics, and Planning, University of Stavanger, Kjell Arholms gate 41, 4021, Stavanger, Norway. Online first

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