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> Note that it is not just police. The core of GPS network, SS7 system, is more than 50 years old in this point. It is often exploited by authoritarian states, sometimes to the end to get human right activists and journalists murdered.

You must mean the phone network, because GPS doesn't run on SS7.



No, I suspect he meant GSM .. which is also sort of wrong-ish but does make sense…


A typo of GPRS is more likely.




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