grandkaiser

My old man used to say (in a sing-song voice):

Hay is for horses

Sometimes cows

Chickens would eat it

But they don't know how

The military is as concerned with civilian gps as much as they are with anything else that isn't military-related: not their issue to solve. They won't stop anyone from using encrypted gps. They really won't. The only branch in the us that actively tries to prevent public encryption is the NSA. (Even then, they wouldn't block something like gps). For the record, I'm a security engineer (DDI, private sector), previously worked for the DOD, and used to work in satcom.

Someone forgot to bait the line when fishing for compliments

The military didn't design it for civilian use. That's really all there is to it. The commenter I was replying to made it sound like theres an easy solution here. There isn't.

"despite"? That's literally why it's being challenged in court. Laws often get struck down shortly after being written.

If they shared the encryption keys, then it wouldn't be safe from spoofing anymore. The whole point of encryption is to not share the keys.

Also, before someone tries to point out PKI, the satellites don't use PKI. So that's not relevant. You can't share the current keys without jeopardizing the system.

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Security through obscurity is not security

90 f was the average temperature of the human body. 0 in fahrenheit used to be the eutectic point of water and ammonium chloride. Eventually though, the scale was adjusted so that the lower point was the freezing temperature of water (32 degrees) and the upper point was the boiling point of water (212 degrees) this was chosen so that there would be a highly divisible number between them (180) due to this adjustment, 0 isn't special in fahrenheit, and neither is 90.

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DDI engineer here. I use smart home stuff. Fully kitted out locks, cameras, Google home, smart lights, etc. that said, I also use pfsense, a dmvpn, and run a private caching name server. If someone hacks into my shit, then I deserve it and will learn from the experience. Also yes, I know the Google home, smart tv, FBI, and the Zoroaster prophet are listening to me, and no, I don't care.

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