[66772] in Cypherpunks
Re: crypto anarchy vs AP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Howland)
Sun Sep 29 10:38:29 1996
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:21:57 +0200
From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>, Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>,
cypherpunks@toad.com
jim bell wrote:
>
> On a related issue, GPS (global-positioning system) contains a de-accurizing
> mis-feature called S/A, which adds a little error to the location as
> detected by a receiver. Ostensibly, it was added so that this could be
> turned on in wartime, to deny the enemy the ability to make 10-meter fixes.
> Turns out that it was kept on all the time, probably because if it WASN'T it
> would become politically impossible to de-accurize the system even in wartime.
Apparently S/A (selective availability) was turned *off* during the Gulf
war. "Military Intelligence" in action.
Gary
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pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
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