Man buys GPS jammer to duck employer, jams his local airport instead

If you work for a company that requires the use of a company vehicle, you could be susceptible to being tracked by your employer. If this bothers you, you may have even considered buying an illegal GPS jammer (available online for less than $100) that can defer signals and allow you to fly under the radar.

 
This GPS jammer is designed to fit right into your car's cigarette lighter.

Just make sure you don’t drive near an airport and disrupt air traffic, or you will get caught.

That’s exactly what happened to a New Jersey man working for an engineering company.

Gary Bojczak thought he was beating the system when he bought a GPS jammer so his employers couldn’t track his vehicle while on the clock, until he drove by Newark Liberty Airport in Newark, NJ and got in the way of the testing of a new GPS-based guidance system called the SmartPath Precision Landing System. (As you would guess, his GPS-jammer “jammed” the GPS technology employed in the new system.)

Landing at Newark Liberty Airport.

Bojczack was tracked down by federal agents and fined $31,875. If that wasn’t bad enough, then he got fired from his job for putting a GPS jammer on his vehicle in the first place.

In the future, there could be an increase in GPS technology used in aircraft and these jammers are a potential threat.

The SmartPath Precision Landing System was developed by Honeywell to increase airport capacity and reduce air traffic and weather delays.

It is now officially installed at Newark Liberty Airport, so be careful if you’re illegally sporting a GPS jammer.

Story via CBS News.