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People do not truly understand not only the dependency on GPS as a canonical source of both position and time. Navigation and nationally productivity can total
by cjhanks 8y ago
People do not truly understand not only the dependency on GPS as a canonical source of both position and time. Navigation and nationally productivity can totally break down if it were to disappear.
But that's an extreme case. Localized and targeted GPS spoofing is not science fiction. What's worse - the GPS spoofing can be designed to warp world geometry in particularly nefarious ways to coerce the trajectory of objects for specific purposes. It's not even that expensive, it's just a different algorithmic problem.
Those algorithms will become trivial in the future - and they will have not been tested by most (if any) of the various autonomous service providers.
- cup-of-tea 8y agoSome people do understand. That's why many countries have made their own independent "GPS" systems.
- cryptonector 8y agoMore of the same easily-jammable schemes is not a real solution. But all wireless location/navigation/time-distribution mechanisms will be easily jammed. The only solution is fantastic improvements in inertial navigation devices.