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The point being that they had access to an illegal GPS receiver (which didn't have the limits of altitude and speed that all civilian receivers should have). Bu
by InclinedPlane 12y ago
The point being that they had access to an illegal GPS receiver (which didn't have the limits of altitude and speed that all civilian receivers should have). But, of course, the civilian GPS signal is just a signal, and anyone can build a receiver capable of decoding it, so there's not a lot anyone can do to prevent that capability from getting into the hands of folks you don't want to have it.
- trhway 12y ago>"illegal GPS receiver" illegal where? for sale in US? I'd not be surprised that GPS gadgets produced in China for US market are just loaded with different version of firmware containing those limits while the same gadgets going somewhere else - with no limits firmware, or may be with even stronger limits (until pretty recently many "US legal" consumer GPS gadgets were illegal in Russia for being "too precise" :)