On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:01:31AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Well, how can you argue with closing a system that was aiding terrorists ? > > The reason LORAN-C got killed was that DoD/DHS couldn't jam it if a > terrorist with a suitcase-nuke was trying to find his way to Congress.
Is this tongue in cheek, or do you have any actual basis for stating that DHS was afraid Loran C WASN'T jammable ? If the later, this is a rather provocative concept... make an increasingly vital but easily jammed resource the only readily available means of precision position and time determination so the government (or some government, or for that matter many private malefactors) can be sure to be able to reliably deny accurate position and or time to the public (or at least many targeted groups within the public) at will ? I wonder what the threat analysis behind this one was... making an increasingly vital service more fragile because of what some have called "movie thriller" plots ? Have they really convinced themselves that bad guys CANNOT figure out a workaround ? It has always happened in the past... > > Your government money at work... -- Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, d...@dieconsulting.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493 "An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten 'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - in celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now either." _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.