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The NTP server of Australia's largest mobile provider reset time to 2006 (abc.net.au)
4 points by itchingsphynx 14 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


The Guardian also has an article about this: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/08/telst... It seems like the US is beginning to think about how to back up GPS and be less reliant: https://www.sandboxaq.com/post/the-hidden-vulnerability-amer...

So it seems like there is a gps.gov to help with this: https://www.gps.gov/resilience-through-responsible-use-pnt#:...

A similar failure in the channel islands: https://www.jcra.je/media/598397/t-027-jt-july-2020-outage-d... (pdf).


Other articles:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823719
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848899
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825942
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823719
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855370



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