In today's Masters Series, adapted from the December 4, 2025 issue of the free Altimetry Daily Authority e-letter, Joel Litman explains why the U.S. is spending billions to understand and counteract this dangerous security risk...

Delivering World-Class Financial Research Since 1999 Editor's note: We're under attack from an invisible threat... Spoofing – an attack that targets navigation systems – has moved from the realm of theory to real-world application. And according to Joel Litman – chief investment officer at our corporate affiliate Altimetry – every GPS-reliant system could fall prey to this silent weapon. In today's Masters Series, adapted from the December 4, 2025 issue of the free Altimetry Daily Authority e-letter, Joel explains why the U.S. is spending billions to understand and counteract this dangerous security risk... Make the U.S. Blind-Spot Bet By Joel Litman, chief investment officer, Altimetry Everyone aboard the White Rose of Drachs could feel the $80 million superyacht turning... But its navigation system assured them it was still on track. It was a clear day in the Mediterranean. The 213-foot vessel was en route from Monaco to Rhodes, Greece... slicing through the water roughly 30 miles off the coast of Italy. Up on the bridge, the crew manned a suite of high-end navigation equipment. It was the exact kind of gear you'd expect on one of the most luxurious yachts in the world. The crew trusted their instruments. The ship's digital charts displayed a clean, steady route. But behind the scenes, a different picture was taking shape. A team of "spoofers" was slowly taking the yacht off course... They blasted GPS signals that were indistinguishable from the real thing – straight at the boat's antennae. Every so often, the spoofers sent a signal suggesting the boat was slightly off course. That forced the crew to course-correct. But the GPS signals were bogus. The boat was on track. And the crew was tricked into turning more and more off course... until eventually, the White Rose was cruising hundreds of meters out of the way. The yacht's wake curved behind it. But the digital display stayed straight. And aside from that one clue, the crew had no way of knowing something was wrong. Spoofing works by overriding a GPS signal with a stronger, false version of the same signal. The target device locks onto the counterfeit source, thinking it's genuine. Once that happens, it's easy to manipulate location data. A boat can be moved off course the same way a drone can be redirected. And the onboard system will keep reporting that everything is fine. Thankfully, the White Rose wasn't being attacked... Recommended Links: 'Days From Now, a Desperate, Multi-TRILLION-Dollar White House Move to Save America Will Shock the Market' The man who has been paid $100,000 for one month of his financial research is sharing the biggest stock story of 2026... and history says it could 23X your money as it unfolds. Click here to learn more (includes a free recommendation). 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It could be mounted on another ship... dropped from a drone... or flown over from miles away. The team that designed the test included a few PhDs. But the system itself was simple enough for anyone to run. Once the code was loaded and the signal set, the attack was automatic. The White Rose was just an example. But in a real-world military application, this type of attack could spell disaster. Spoofing rarely sets off alarms until it's too late... That's what makes this problem so serious. And it's no longer a theoretical concern. Any system that depends on GPS is now a potential target. That includes many sides of the aerospace and defense industry. It's a growing blind spot in national security... one we're only beginning to address. It's not the only security risk, either. In the age of AI, attacks are getting more sophisticated and harder to fight. The U.S. government can't afford to fall behind. Last year, the Pentagon set aside more than $140 billion for defense research, development, testing, and evaluation. A lot of that testing budget is flowing into next-generation military technology... like secure satellite navigation GPS tools built specifically to stop attacks like spoofing. And the spending isn't slowing down. Over the next five years, tens of billions of dollars are set to flow toward contractors building the systems the modern military relies on. For investors, that's the real story. Security gaps are widening... and budgets are surging to close them. The defense contractors solving those problems will be some of the market's strongest performers. Regards, Joel Litman Editor's note: Spoofing attacks aren't the only threat that the U.S. faces. Our weapons supply is also creating another vulnerable spot in our nation's defense. But the White House is preparing to rebuild and overhaul our military at all costs. 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September 26, 2026   |   Read online In partnership with    📬 Did someone forward this to you? Sign up here. Tomorrow: Private browsing isn’t as private as it sounds. I’ll show you what’s exposed, why it matters and what to use instead. I hope your Saturday is lovely, friend. Somewhere in America, there’s an old iPhone sleeping in a junk drawer next to a mystery key, a pack of matches and three dead hotel pens. Let me tell you about this little storage rule for old devices “resting” in a drawer like tiny retired robots.  That spare iPad? The winter-only laptop? The old iPhone you swear you’ll use again? Apple has a specific number it wants that battery sitting at before the drawer closes. Battery beauty sleep has rules. Of course it does. 🔋 What’s the battery percentage an old phone should be at before it’s stored away long-term? A) 100%, obviously, we love preparedness, B) 0%, because batteries deserve naps, C) About 50% or D) Wherever it lands, who cares? Answer’s tucked at the end, like that cable you can’t find. I’m guilty. I found three old phones in one drawer last month. 💾 Terry bought Carbonite on a Tuesday. Her hard drive failed on Thursday: She recovered everything. I’ve used Carbonite for years because that’s how it works. Automatic, encrypted, off-site. Your backup shouldn’t sit next to the computer that could take it out. Get 50% off with my deal.* 📻 Listen up! My national radio show is airing all weekend across the USA. With over 510 stations strong, find your closest one by using our super-duper station locator map, or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart or watch the entire show on YouTube. I’m wherever you are. — Kim TODAY’S DEEP DIVE Bank on it Image: ChatGPT/Kim Komando 🤯 WOW! A power bank is a lithium battery you carry. Brand matters, and there’s one label check that matters more. Picks below. 📖 Read time: 2 minutes “Hi, Kim, I love your YouTube channel. You mentioned battery fires recently on a show. I want a portable battery I can trust for my phone, my iPad and my laptop. I’m afraid of a fire while it charges next to my bed, or worse, on a plane. Yike! Which brand is safest?” — Drama Rama Julie in Washington, D.C., listening on WTOP 103.5 FM Julie, first, you’re not being dramatic. There have been 56 battery smoke-and-fire incidents on U.S. flights this year. The brand is half of it. 🏷️ The 10-second label check Flip any power bank over. The Wh number. That’s watt-hours, the real size. Under 100 Wh flies without asking. If it’s missing, back on the shelf. A safety mark. UL 2056 is the standard written specifically for power banks. It tests overcharging, short circuits, drops, crushing and overheating. Look for the UL or ETL logo on the case itself. No mark, no sale.  Then check the seller. On Amazon, the listing should say “Ships from Amazon” and “Sold by” the brand itself. That $9 brick from a seller named XQZTY is how a jump-starter ends up in a consumer safety warning with nobody to call. 🔋 Why not just buy Apple’s? I get asked this a lot. Apple killed its MagSafe Battery Pack in 2023, and the only battery it sells today is a $99 pack that fits one phone, the iPhone Air. Nothing for an iPad, nothing for a MacBook.  Apple would rather let Anker, Belkin and UGREEN fight over the battery. Those three publish their safety testing, put the UL mark on the case and answer the phone. 🔌 Three I’d buy, any brand of phone For your phone: Belkin 10,000mAh 20W. Works on any iPhone, Galaxy, Pixel or Motorola with a USB-C port. The cable is built in, so nobody forgets the cord. About $25, 37 Wh. Want the magnetic kind that snaps on the back? The Anker MagGo 10K (about $80) sticks to any iPhone 12 or newer and the Pixel 10. Samsung skipped the magnets. If that’s you, stick with the Belkin. For your tablet: UGREEN Nexode 20,000mAh 145W. Built-in USB-C cable, 72 Wh, charges an iPad, a Galaxy Tab or a Surface, and has enough juice (100W) to run a small laptop in a pinch. Around $65 on sale. For your laptop: Anker Prime 27,650mAh 250W. Two USB-C ports, 99.5 Wh, the biggest you can carry onto a plane without asking. About $180. Works with any laptop that charges over USB-C. (If your laptop still uses a round barrel plug, no power bank on Earth will feed it. Buy the wall charger and call it a day.) Now, your two fears.  The nightstand: Charge on a hard surface, never under a pillow or on the comforter, and unplug it when it hits full.  The plane: It rides in your carry-on, never checked, and you charge it in your lap or the seat pocket. Where you can see it is where you can stop it. If a bank ever puffs up, runs hot or takes a hard drop, it retires to the battery drop-off, not the trash. I got angry when my phone battery died. My therapist suggested I find an outlet. 📩 Send this to someone who bought the cheapest power bank on Amazon. Share this now: Email | Facebook | X     IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Your backup needs a backup Keeping important files on an external drive isn’t enough. Think about it. That drive can fail, get lost or be damaged right along with your computer. That’s why I trust Carbonite. It automatically backs up your important files and photos in the cloud, where they’re encrypted and protected from the unexpected. Terry learned just how important that can be: “Years ago, Kim recommended Carbonite, and I decided to purchase it to back up everything. Two days later, my hard drive failed. I downloaded my backup and recovered everything. Thanks Kim!” — Terry You’re welcome, Terry. That’s exactly why I use Carbonite. Your backup shouldn’t be sitting next to your computer where the same accident can take out both devices. Carbonite Basic gives you unlimited cloud backup for one computer. And right now, save 50% on Carbonite. Only $47.99 for your first year. That’s nothing for all your years of memories, documents, tax returns and more. ✅ Sign up for Carbonite today and get 50% off. You’ll be glad you did. → Thank you for supporting our sponsors, who keep this newsletter free.     📺 YOUTUBE: THE KIM KOMANDO SHOW 🎧 This weekend on my show A computer labeled Robert Dillon a 93% match with a suspect in a crime 300 miles from his home. He’d never been there. He spent a night in jail anyway. Now he’s suing. Here’s what I want to know: How much should we trust AI when it’s deciding things about real people? Plus, Meghan Markle joined her kids’ school group chat as “M.” Her number was out within hours. Also on the show: Meta is being sued. Workers training its AI were allegedly shown intimate footage never meant for their eyes. AI agents went rogue. Gemini and OpenAI tools broke into three companies’ health databases on their own. Alison got burned by a fake Airbnb. Rusty nails and a “room” that was a shed. Here’s how to spot the scam before you book. Fat Bear Week is on. Last year’s 1,200-pound champ, Chunk, is defending his crown with a jaw he broke last summer. Voting ends Tuesday. ▶️ Listen to the full show → 📺 Watch on YouTube → WEB WATERCOOLER 🤐 Chatbot, meet evidence locker: Here’s your reminder that ChatGPT is not a lawyer, a priest or a vault. Court records show a vandalism suspect asked the AI for “damage control” tips right after the damage was done. Prosecutors got the chat logs, and now his cleanup plan is evidence. What you type into an AI can end up in a courtroom. My rule: If you wouldn’t say it to a detective, don’t type it to a chatbot. Bot and paid for: Your Amazon side hustle just hired a night shift that never sleeps. Amazon opened its seller tools to outside AI agents, starting with Anthropic’s Claude. It can update listings and manage inventory while a one-person shop owner does something reckless, like sleep.  If you sell on Amazon, this is worth a look. Finally, an employee who actually reads the manual. The catch? If the AI botches a price, description or stock count, your morning begins with lost sales and refunds.  🔐 A human picks up the phone when fraud hits: That’s what sold me on Coveron. Not just alerts. A real restoration specialist who handles everything. Up to $2 million in identity theft coverage. I left LifeLock for this. Get 71% off, that’s $4.36 a month.*  Sunglasses need boundaries: Get ready for a Thanksgiving where your nephew wears Ray-Bans that might be listening, filming or answering questions, and nobody knows which. Meta’s Gen 3 glasses start at $449 with better battery life and another mic. The camera-free Ray-Ban Audio model gets rid of the feature making ordinary people inspect each other’s faces like airport security. More than 100 style combinations coming by year-end. I’d rather fumble for my phone than make dessert feel like surveillance training. 💳 Checkout gets pickpocketed: Picture typing in your card to buy a plane ticket, and an invisible script quietly makes itself a copy. That happened across at least 119 websites, including a major airline and a Fortune 500 hospitality company. Hackers used AI agents to install the skimmers for about $25 per target, stealing more than 600,000 cards since July. I’d always use a credit card, skip debit and enable instant purchase alerts. Fraud loves someone who doesn’t check their checking account. DEVICE ADVICE ⚡️ 3-second tech genius: Weird outlines around people on the TV? Try turning down Sharpness. A better picture comes from the screen’s resolution and the quality of the stream. That slider can’t invent missing detail. On computer monitors, the neutral setting is often 50 out of 100 or 5 out of 10, depending on the model. There, everyone looks a little less like a sticker. 🌐 The web guy is out. AI is in: I opened Hostinger, typed what I wanted and had a complete website in 35 minutes. No coding, no designer, no hassle. 30-day money-back guarantee. Plans start at $2.69 a month. Get 10% off if you sign up.* Scrolling shouldn’t turn your stomach: Google’s car-sickness feature is coming to more Android phones. Bubbles move around the screen’s edges when the car is in motion, helping your eyes and body agree on what’s happening. Look for it in Settings > Safety & Emergency > Motion Assist. FYI, you’ll need Android 17 or later and updated Google Play services. 📋 There’s the button I was looking for: iOS 27 adds a Paste shortcut right above the iPhone keyboard. Copy some text, a link or a photo, switch apps and tap a place to type. The button appears, ready to drop it in. No pressing and holding for the usual menu. Small improvement, yes. But think how often you do this. 😌 Hear what all the fuss is about: Apple Maps is adding podcasts about famous landmarks. Look up the Statue of Liberty or Hollywood Sign, and you may see a Hidden Histories episode. Tap to listen, or browse Guides for more. For now, it’s only a few places in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and Washington, D.C. 🎮 All ideas, no coding? That’ll do: Meta will soon let you make games by describing them. Think “Make a multiplayer 2D racing game.” It’ll work on phones and browsers, and published games could appear in Facebook and Instagram feeds for people to play without downloading anything. Tell the kids to join the wait list. I expect a mention in the credits.     KIM’S DAILY DEALS As an Amazon Associate, some links pay us a commission at no extra cost to you. Keeps this newsletter free. Thank you. 🍂 Reset your nest Cooler days are coming. Let’s get your place ready.     💧 Mist have: Smart humidifier (27% off, $40) 4.5 ⭐ 5,200+ reviews Dry skin and stuffy sinuses? Blame the cold temps. Fill up the 3-liter tank once, and it runs quietly for up to 30 hours. The night-light pulls double duty, changing color based on your room’s moisture level. Image: DREO     😴 Get great sleep for real: I use this melatonin-free, sugar-free nightly formula with a delicious tart cherry flavor, designed to help you relax, sleep better, and wake up refreshed. It works. No melatonin and no drugs. Save 30% now, plus free shipping.** Seal the deal: One roll of weather stripping tape (17% off, $10) seals drafty gaps without wrecking the look of your windows and doors.  🧥 Closet maxed out? Rolling under-bed bins (15% off, $29) hold your shoes and the off-season clothes you won’t touch for months. Shrink your stash: Amazon Basics’ vacuum storage bags (52% off with Prime, $14) shrink bulky linens by up to 80%. A hand pump’s included. 🍁 Leaf your old habits behind: Browse all my home picks before winter moves in. → Prices and deals were accurate at the time of publication.     WHAT THE TECH? Image: @frankielap via Instagram 🥊 Rock ’em, sock ’em Frankie Lapenna climbed into a cage with a modified EngineAI T800 humanoid, a 6-foot, 165-pound metal kickboxer dressed like it wandered off a Terminator set. Under the hood, aviation-grade magnesium-aluminum alloy. Remote-controlled in real time, with preset button-triggered moves. Its kicks can reportedly hit with about 850 pounds of force vs. roughly 650 for an average adult. According to Cix Liv, CEO of REK (Robot Entertainment Kombat), Lapenna still won by unbalancing his opponent and ripping its head off. Classic move.  You can see highlights here. So a robot might have lost its head. I’ve seen worse after a family group chat. LOGGING OUT … 🎓 What you learned today: Power bank safety comes down to watt-hours and reliable certification, Amazon sellers can hand inventory chores to AI agents, Meta’s new glasses keep the privacy debate alive, checkout skimmers are getting nastier and a robot kickboxer lost the old-fashioned way. Not bad for one email. Your ISP may know more than you think. Tomorrow, I’ll break down what they can see and the simple steps to lock things down. ✅ Answer: C) About 50%. If you’re putting an iPhone, iPad or MacBook away for a while, Apple says charge it to around 50%, then power it off. Not full. Not empty. Right down the middle, like the Switzerland of battery percentages. Two more drawer rules: Keep it cooler than 95 degrees (the garage in July won’t qualify), and if it’s sitting more than six months, top it back up to 50% at the six-month mark. 🚩 Why shouldn’t you wave a red flag at a battery? Because a battery charges. 💾 Your external drive is not enough: It sits right next to your computer. Same flood. Same fire. Same theft. Carbonite backs everything up to the cloud automatically, so the same accident can’t take out both. Sign up through me and get 50% off.* 🐕 Nobody is happier to see you than your dog. Act accordingly. You have to see my Bella watching TV. Leave a comment, I read them all to her! — Kim Kim Komando • 510+ radio stations • Trusted by millions daily 🏆 THE KIM CHALLENGE: Forward this to ONE person who needs to hear it today. Pick the person who popped into your head while reading. You know who it is. HOW’D WE DO? What did you think of today’s issue? 👍 Good 😐 Just OK 👎 Terrible Photo credit(s): ChatGPT/Kim Komando, DREO, @frankielap via Instagram Companies and products denoted by an asterisk (*) within this publication are paid sponsors or advertisements. As an Amazon Associate, the publisher earns from qualifying purchases. 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