Article QS4P GPS, Plan B: US Navy teaches celestial navigation as fallback for cyberattack

GPS, Plan B: US Navy teaches celestial navigation as fallback for cyberattack

by
Cory Doctorow
from on (#QS4P)

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The Naval Academy is digging sextants out of their storage spaces and asking the Merchant Marine Academy (which never stopped teaching celestial navigation) and training its students in celestial navigation so that the ships will still be able to find their way after their adversaries infect the GPS system with malware. (more")

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