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GPS no longer encrypted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Wed May 3 00:33:03 2000
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:12:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Salz <salzr@certco.com>
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A handful of press releases, including
http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/ThisWeek.cgi?type=p&date=1&briefing=0
Which starts...
Today, I am pleased to announce that the United States will stop the
intentional degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signals
available to the public beginning at midnight tonight. We call this
degradation feature Selective Availability (SA). This will mean that
civilian users of GPS will be able to pinpoint locations up to ten times
more accurately than they do now. GPS is a dual-use, satellite-based
system that provides accurate location and timing data to users worldwide.
