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   Jeff Findley to All   
   Re: Small GPS   
   06 Jan 05 10:36:35   
   
   From: jeff.findley@ugs.nojunk.com   
      
    wrote in message   
   news:1104968476.664619.36540@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   > True, but even in the mid-1990s, when a red team looked at this, it   
   > turned out that many GPS vendors implemented the limits in ways that   
   > were readily circumventable.  At least one, in Canada IIRC, just put   
   > the limitation in the display driver.   
      
   This I didn't know.  I would have thought the limits would be built into the   
   chipset itself, so that there wouldn't be any possibility of hacking.   
      
   Jeff   
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