9 Aug
2023
9 Aug
'23
2:32 p.m.
Once upon a time, Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> said:
Both GPS and WWVB are over-the-air. There has been concern expressed of a bad actor spoofing or jamming GPS. Comparatively speaking, jamming or spoofing WWVB is a trivial joke.
WWVB is not generally useful for precision timing applications, due to the distance and wave reflections. Also, from a security point of view, I have read that it is legal to have your own low-power transmitter on the WWVB frequency, and there are instructions for doing it with a Pi, so it would be very cheap and easy to mess with somebody's WWVB signal. -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>