{"id":1789981,"date":"2021-01-25T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789981"},"modified":"2021-01-25T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T14:17:00","slug":"americas-overdependence-on-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/01\/americas-overdependence-on-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s Overdependence on GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

GPS signals are relied upon by critical parts of our infrastructure, from transportation to communications to agriculture to financial markets. But those signals are easily spoofed or jammed and, at least in the United States, have no real backup (despite legislation mandating one by last year). Kate Murphy\u2019s opinion piece in the New York Times<\/em><\/a> not only serves as a summary of the problem, and a warning, it also does so in the most mainstream of newspapers: most of what I\u2019ve read on the subject has been in the business, tech and science media. More people will see this. [MAPS-L<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Previously: GPS Is Easy to Disrupt, and the Consequences of Disruption Are Serious<\/a>; A GPS Spoofing Mystery in Shanghai<\/a>; The Economic Impact of GPS\u2014and GPS Outages<\/a>; The Russians Are Spoofing! The Russians Are Spoofing!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GPS signals are relied upon by critical parts of our infrastructure, from transportation to communications to agriculture to financial markets. But those signals are easily spoofed or jammed and, at least in the United States,… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[1333,1199],"class_list":["post-1789981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gps","tag-gps-spoofing","tag-outages","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788065,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/a-gps-spoofing-mystery-in-shanghai\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789981,"position":0},"title":"A GPS Spoofing Mystery in Shanghai","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 November 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Someone is spoofing GPS signals in Shanghai, and we\u2019re not entirely sure why they\u2019re doing it, or how. 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