The 1,000 Mile GPS Jammer

You can buy short range personal GPS jammers for well under a hundred dollars from literally thousands of web retailers, and an outfit in China (where else?) has raised the technology ante on these nefarious gizmos.

C.T.S. Technology Co. Ltd. stands ready to sell anyone a GPS jammer that can knock out signals in a 500 to 1,000 mile range, and it's easily hooked up to a car cigarette lighter socket for juice.

This illegal gizmo has a power output of 100 watts, or four times the power of the GPS satellite transmitter and could completely overwhelm GPS signals within a radius of thousands of miles on the ground. C.T.S Technology did not post a price on this high powered jammer, but I'm sure they're ready to deal.

I stumbled across this evil toy yesterday when I did a search to see of Google is keeping its promise to no longer sell GPS jammer keyword ads.

Those ads are still blocked, but a search for GPS jammers on Google comes back with just under 1.6 million results -- quite alarming since there is no backup to the GPS system.