Posted on 07/05/2024 9:21:23 AM PDT by delta7
The Global Positioning System runs the modern world.… But it is under daily attack. This year alone, researchers say, more than 60,000 commercial flights have been hit by bogus GPS signals, which can confuse pilots.… The American GPS network that was once the gold standard is at risk of becoming a relic as Chinese, Russian and European systems modernize.
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All our ATM’s and most all of our financial systems must be “ time stamped” down to milliseconds. Guess where they get their Timestamps? GPS. Just look at one of your ATM receipts, or banking transaction receipt.
Loss of GPS ( if widespread enough) freezes the entire US financial system.
Got cash? It’s coming.
For national defense purposes GPS must be jammed sometimes is the rationale that is unfolding around us.
I will add a public service announcement. You probably didn’t know the many crimes occurring at ATM stations….here is how it goes….criminal has a local GPS jammer….you go to ATM, he jams the signal, the station says it is not operating, you try again, criminal sneaks up, grabs your card and forces your pin, he unjams the GPS timestamp, clears out your account….at least up to the ridiculous low limits set on it ( every wonder why your ATM withdrawal limits are so low?)
Yes, our financial system is weak and vulnerable. More than you may think. It will be exploited.
We have bigger fish to fry, like instituting DEI and investigating White Supremacists.
The thing I’ve known and understood is GPS is our system and our military can mess with it whenever and however they have the need to do.
The only existential threat to humanity is climate change - Joe Biden
This is what I used to find my way around Los Angeles.
I would be very surprised if there's not some "slop" built into their algorithms. You have to assume that a clock isn't perfectly synchronized, especially if the sync signal is coming e.g., from a radio interface that may not be dependable. Now if it was out for a long period of time, it's completely possible that the clock would drift outside of the slop window, and stuff would stop working.
In my almost 20 yr full time CDL trucking career (2001-2021) I hardly ever used gps. I had paper maps and happily used them.
LOL, reminds me of our old Mapsco book for street around the Dallas area. Whenever were drove anywhere on a trip, no matter how well we knew the way, my wife insisted on taking her Rand McNally road atlas with her.
The thing I’ve known and understood is GPS is our system and our military can mess with it whenever and however they have the need to do.
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Yes, and no. It is owned by the US Government, many components operated by our Space Force, a joint .Gov and military system.
The take away I mention is loss of GPS can result in huge banking/ financial problems and disruptions, something many never realize- in a mili second.
Do I think our .gov would shut down our banking system, under certain events, yes. It is a marvelous “ tool” to selectively shut down all money transfers.
Another related event- when vegetable head Joe took Russia off of SWIFT, they lost much ability to monitor worldwide money transfers, the SWIFT monitored all to and from transfers.
Now that Russia/ China/ India / Sauds ( and more) have developed their own settlement systems, the U.S. intelligence agencies are very concerned, a huge loss of intelligence.
Why does this brain dead administration keep committing suicide?
I still have a 1996 book of maps for the Tucson area, but it’s not a Thomas Guide. I also have a box of old paper maps from just about everywhere I ever lived or worked, and a Rand McNally road atlas that goes on trips with us.
At home, though, I’ll use Google Earth on the computer. Good for finding places (though it does make mistakes sometimes) and for taking a look at the place before we go there.
Our GPS runs off of atomic clocks. They must have + - nanosecond accuracy. Time is not constant. Greenwich mean time ( at sea level) and say our Colorado atomic clock ( at altitude) are constantly having to be synchronized.
I find it strange our “ science” still has not figured out what Time is, as even our best atomic clocks must be continuously “ synchronized “.
All our ATM’s and most all of our financial systems must be “ time stamped” down to milliseconds. Guess where they get their Timestamps? GPS. Just look at one of your ATM receipts, or banking transaction receipt.
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Network Time Protocol (NTP), your computer uses it
Traceable to NIST.
A piece of open-source software (free) versus a piece of hardware (cheap).
For those interested:
Computer clocks were set and maintained inside the machine - at least way back when.
The time stamps came from the machine’s clock - yeah, we pretty much stamped every single transaction down to fractions of a second - speaking from several years of banking experience on big machines.
I don’t know if any of that has changed in recent times with servers - this was back in the mainframe/midrange/minicomputer days.
I’m staring at my radio-wave clock that’s been gaining time ever since it was out of service for about a year while in storage - it’s now running about 57 minutes ahead - I should replace it, LOL - there’s a twin to it around here somewhere - I just don’t know if it acquired the same disease (cheap digital from Walmart)
They were awesome for a long time - double-alarm to force me to get up early for a 12-hour shift
What I’d like more than anything else is to get the built in GPS out of my car
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