SPECIAL FEATURE: GPS VULNERABILITY
CLEAR AND PRESENT ECONOMIC DANGER Americans depend on GPS. While military dangers are obvious, outages would also cause incalculable damages to the economy. By Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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ladimir Putin's Russia brags that his country’s new Pole-21 radio-electronic systems, soon to be installed in Siberia and the Ural Mountains, can spoof America’s Global Positioning System (GPS), which provides positioning, navigation, and timing services through a system of satellites, and is vital to Americans. Hacking it has never been easier. 28 | www.gwprime.geospatialworld.net | March-April 2021
