10 May
2016
10 May
'16
11:23 a.m.
That would be a very poor idea, since a lot of the circuits the DoD still uses to communicate with are ATM lines :) On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:52:28AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote a message of 37 lines which said:
Note that they *do* have motivation to keep it working, simply because so much of their *own* gear (from gear for individual soldiers all the way to strategic bombers and aircraft carriers) wants a working GPS signal...
Yes, but they may switch it off for civilian use (by going encrypted, for instance) at any time, if it is better for *their* operations.