Amy Scott
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 19 Mar
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Beth Scott is Director of Case Management at the Patient Advocate Foundation in Hampton, Virginia.
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The Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's oil travels in normal times, is now a GPS dead zone.
The signal is being jammed as a form of electronic warfare.
And that's one of the reasons why it's so hard for ships to go through the strait right now.
Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal and wrote about the phenomenon.
He says these jamming devices are cheap and small and increasingly used in warfare and beyond.
And you write in your piece that that's a big factor in the current war in the Middle East.
The Strait of Hormuz is basically a GPS dead zone.
How are these devices being used outside of warfare?
And they're having some negative effects.
I mean, you write about commercial flights being turned around.
I read about a construction site that basically had to shut down because it was messing up its coordination of all the equipment.
So companies are working on alternatives.
Can you describe some of those?
How long before some of these alternatives are as reliable and ubiquitous as GPS?
Do you think there would be all this effort to find an alternative if it weren't for these wars?
Christopher Mims is a tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal.
Thank you so much for your reporting.
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