In message <20110310065452.ge6...@pig.dieconsulting.com>, "David I. Emery" writ es:
>> 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 ? I have this information from several independent sources. > 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 ? We are talking about DHS, the same people who want to see your junk in airports, what makes you think there is an analysis and not just security-theater involved ? Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ 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.
