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It's not comforting, indeed. But you should know that the various space-based positioning systems (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou etc) are deployed and administered by t
by lfam 9y ago
It's not comforting, indeed.
But you should know that the various space-based positioning systems (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou etc) are deployed and administered by the respective governments of their countries of origin. They were invented for the military and can be selectively disabled or degraded for civilian users.
Does anyone think it's possible for non-governments to stand up replacements for these systems, from either a technical or legal / political perspective?
- jdavis703 9y agoIt'd be very easy to make a law outlawing high-resoluton satellite positioning systems. All lawmakers would need to claim is it was a national security issue that terrorists could use blah blah. From a technical perspective it's not hard at all, but corporations are probably leery of launching (no pun intended) such a business.