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by jimlikeslimes 891 days ago
>> President Reagan ordered an unencrypted version of GPS to be made available to the public so that civilian aircraft would have a reliable form of navigation. At the time, no one apparently foresaw any motive or incentive for tampering with GPS signals, so no provision was made to protect them.

That can't be true, I believe one of the Die Hard films made at the time is based on this idea.

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Selective Availability was baked in from the beginning.