this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
165 points (97.7% liked)

Technology

58303 readers
13 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Interesting implications, perhaps the global positioning system is not as infallible as we thought

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I live in one of the mentioned countries and I use GPS daily. I have never experienced this problem. Maybe a problem in other areas/countries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It might be localized to a certain province maybe? Do you remember reading any local news about outages or anything like that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Huh, maybe the article is just exaggerating a bit. Still, it's concerning to know that gps jamming technologies even exist, if not a bit expected