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What’s new: Increasing concern about the vulnerability of almost all of America’s infrastructure – not just GPS.
Why it’s important: It highlights how fragile systems have become without adequate protections for primary systems or backups if they fail.
What else to know: GPS’s vulnerability and America’s over-reliance on it did not occur in a vacuum. It is part of a larger pattern of striving for greater and greater efficiencies at the expense of robustness and resilience, and perhaps over-confidence being the sole global superpower for decades.
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