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Re: NIST NTP servers


From: Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 10:23:03 -0500

That would be a very poor idea, since a lot of the circuits the DoD
still uses to communicate with are ATM lines :)

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr> wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:52:28AM -0400,
 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote
 a message of 37 lines which said:

Note that they *do* have motivation to keep it working, simply
because so much of their *own* gear (from gear for individual
soldiers all the way to strategic bombers and aircraft carriers)
wants a working GPS signal...

Yes, but they may switch it off for civilian use (by going encrypted,
for instance) at any time, if it is better for *their* operations.




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