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As of now all GNSS constellation are somewhat spoofable, especially if you only want to drift a clock a few milliseconds late... And a lot of timeservers are still GPS only so the attack is pretty easy to perform.

The private line idea is maybe doable (but which protocol? NTP doesn't offer the needed precision), but as all substations would need one, my guess is that eventually money would be an object...




> (but which protocol? NTP doesn't offer the needed precision)

You might enjoy reading the documentation for NPLTime [1] which uses PTP over telecom fibre networks.

Of course, their target market is banks with record keeping requirements so it probably costs a fortune.

[1] https://www.npl.co.uk/npltime




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