Posted on 07/09/2006 6:49:32 AM PDT by John Jorsett
Hadn't heard that. Interesting.
Possibly the Europeans were "encouraged" to code the signals in some compromise over accuracy, availability, etc. with the US.
But they purposefully made it easy to crack.
Actually, these are just spread spectrum pseudo random noise codes, and have nothing to do with security.
http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=330805
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