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The NTP server of Australia's largest mobile provider reset time to 2006
- wglb 2mo agoThe Guardian also has an article about this: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/08/telstra-outage-down-network-mobile-outages-today#:~:text=On%20Wednesday%20evening%2C%20Ackland%20provided,time%20is%20to%20the%20nanosecond. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/08/telst... It seems like the US is beginning to think about how to back up GPS and be less reliant: https://www.sandboxaq.com/post/the-hidden-vulnerability-americas-gps-dependency-as-a-national-security-and-economic-risk#:~:text=Recognizing%20these%20vulnerabilities%2C%20Congress%20has,call%20for%20urgent%20PNT%20enhancements. https://www.sandboxaq.com/post/the-hidden-vulnerability-amer... So it seems like there is a gps.gov to help with this: https://www.gps.gov/resilience-through-responsible-use-pnt#:~:text=Feb%202021%3A%20Free%20resources%20to,News%20release%20(NIST.gov) https://www.gps.gov/resilience-through-responsible-use-pnt#:... A similar failure in the channel islands: https://www.jcra.je/media/598397/t-027-jt-july-2020-outage-decision-directions.pdf https://www.jcra.je/media/598397/t-027-jt-july-2020-outage-d... (pdf).
- wglb 2mo agoOther articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855370