If your rely on GPS to get you to work, out of the bush, back to shore, or anywhere else, it’s time to stop. The Bush administration is paving the way to shutting down GPS in the event of an “emergency” so that “terrorists won’t be able to navigate.” Nice one, George: why not shut down the fire-departments, too, so that “terrorists won’t be able to survive fires started by careless smoking?”
The president also instructed the Defense Department to develop plans to disable, in certain areas, an enemy’s access to the U.S. navigational satellites and to similar systems operated by others. The European Union is developing a $4.8 billion program, called Galileo.
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