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>Also telling people to "calm down" over text when they are not even talking to you is very passive aggresive for no reason.

Your "This" quote was the least genuine comment I've seen on HN in a very long time. You took a comment and removed all context to complain about how it's wrong, when it wasn't wrong at all. There should be no doubt that GPS glitches can cause people with ankle monitors a lot of needless trouble, and "the system" likely won't believe it, and simply won't care.

If you had an ankle monitor, and someone wanted to fuck with you, it would be trivially easy to block or spoof GPS signals to put you back in jail. All it takes is an SDR and some software you can find on github. Think about that before you quip "This" again.

This time the glitch was 33 feet, who's to say next time it couldn't be 3300 feet?



> This time the glitch was 33 feet, who's to say next time it couldn't be 3300 feet?

People who study this. This glitch was caused by unusual, structured, widespread distortions in the ionosphere. There's no known mechanism that would cause enough distortion to make the errors 100 times as large. There would also be other symptoms of any unknown cause.

https://claude.ai/share/5cc4163e-9cbf-47cd-9749-4bb55bca42fe if you don't mind discursions into safety of aviation navigation systems. Caution: Do not take the error bounds in the second half as relevant to errors for unaugmented single-frequency users; those users will see much bigger errors.




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