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Article: GPS now deemed officially vulnerable. (Business Briefing).(global positioning system)(Brief Article)
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- Interavia Business & Technology
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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In 1998, the US Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection directed the Department of Transportation (DOT) to assess "risks to civilian users of GPS-based systems, with a view to basing decisions on the ultimate architecture of the modernized National Airspace System." The report, from DOT's Volpe Transportation Systems Center, was released in early September this year. The report emphasised the system's vulnerabilities to deliberate interference, which seemed a very remote possibility at the time. But after September 11, its assertion that GPS would become "a tempting target that could be exploited by individuals, groups or countries hostile to the ...
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