GPS jamming is up 67 percent and spoofing up 193 percent. Some of it is the enemy, some is the home team defending against drones. Either way, know when your GPS is lying.
Airplane mode feels like an off switch for surveillance. Flip it, and the phone goes quiet. It’s a useful setting, but it was designed to keep radios from interfering with aircraft, not to make you invisible, and treating it as a security boundary will get you in trouble. Here’s what it actually does and what
Travel is where your phone is most exposed: unfamiliar networks, border searches, devices out of your sight. A practical, no-paranoia checklist for the road.
Flight crews live unusually public, predictable lives, and their phones reveal schedules, routes, and the movements of the people they fly. A detailed look at mobile security for aviation professionals.
