U.S. Military Has Been Broadcasting Encrypted Codes Through Public GPS Signals for Nearly 20 Years, Expert Finds
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Becky Ferreira
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Summary
Information security expert Steven Murdoch has uncovered evidence that the U.S. military has been covertly broadcasting encrypted codes for its global cryptographic key update system through public GPS signals for nearly 20 years. This means every GPS-enabled device has been receiving hidden government transmissions without public knowledge. Murdoch, a professor of security engineering, published his findings in Inside GNSS, revealing that a seemingly random sequence in a GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys worldwide.
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That means every device that uses GPS has been receiving hidden government information for years, and nobody outside the military knew it until now.
A random sequence in an innocuous GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the U.S. military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys around the world.
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