Episode 147: Forty Year Old GPS Satellites offer a Warning about securing the Internet of Things
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The article covers the April 2019 GPS 'Y2019' date-counter rollover that caused satellites to report unreliable position data—leading to flight disruptions such as grounded Boeing 787s in China—and frames the event as an example of how legacy design decisions and fragile date counters in long-lived cyber-physical systems and IoT devices can produce cascading failures; Bill Malik of Trend Micro is quoted warning that insecure architecture today can have long-term, unexpected consequences.
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