IS YOUR GPS
REALLY DANGEROUS?
By Tom Dillman, Veterans Today Contributor
British engineers are warning technologically advanced nations that their citizens have become overly and dangerously reliant on global positioning systems (the wonderful GPS). The esteemed Royal Academy of Engineering itself said the application of this satellite locator technology is now so broad – from car navigation systems to time stamps on financial transactions – that any disruption can lead to a major disaster.
Six to seven percent of economic growth in western countries is already dependent on satellite navigation or monitoring systems.
Natural disruptions that can cause major spikes in the world markets (including the NYSE) can come from storms or sun flares that cause satellite interference to simple equipment failure. Didn’t that BBC journalist who broadcast that world shaking report of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 minutes before it happened, blame it all on a satelite transmission failure? Look how petty criminals using smaller scale, cheap electronic jammers avoid highway road tolls – try that on the New Jersey turnpike at rush hour – or even, yes Rep. King assures us, terrorists that are seeking to attack entire systems.
The US operated Global Positioning System that we now take for granted is currently used for everything from commercial aircraft locations, tracking cargo, the opening of train doors at stations, and countless other applications like precise location marking of my latest back country gold strike or sunken pirate treasure.
All GPS applications are vulnerable, with complications ranging from mere inconvenience to loss of wealth to possible loss of life from interruptions to emergency services communications.
And we thought years ago that electronic calculators were stealing a large part of our minds. And in recent years the cell phone and texting has taken much of what is left. Now, we come to find out our easily accessible little GPS antenna in our autos wants to finish the deal off. I used to think that being up in the mountains with a burro, a backpack and a gold pick was the answer. Now my kids and grandkids are telling me I have to wear a GPS tracking device and bring my cell phone. What? This is not big brother taking over our lives. It’s worse. It’s our little sisters raising holy hell. Is there no end in sight to this worldly madness?
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About the Author: Tom Dillman is a former Mad Scientist – an Electronic Engineer, Physicist and Mathematician; an Army Cavalry Veteran with a dysfunctional brain; a direct descendant of the First Surviving Virginia Colony in 1605 (the Injuns kicked the bejeebers out of the First Non-Surviving Virginia Colony); an investigative Journalist; Author and Treasure Hunter. Along his ambling life path he designed special submarine technology, nuclear missile launchers, and helped put the men on the moon. He has been a successful Venture Capital entrepreneur, with a very high security clearance.
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