Topic: Space - on September 24, 2011 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Satellitenabsturz
Die NASA hat ihre Vorhersage zum Absturz des Erdbeobachtungssatelliten "UARS" erneut präzisiert. Statt wie noch bis vor Kurzem angenommen, wird der Satellit nicht in der Nacht von Freitag auf Samstag, sondern am Samstagmorgen in die Erdatmsphäre eintreten.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 24, 2011 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
Particles found to break speed of light
An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles traveling faster than light -- a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's long-accepted fundamental laws of the universe.
Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the researchers, told Reuters that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on September 24, 2011 at 11:44:00 AM CEST
A guide to Libya’s surveillance network
After repeated interrogations lead by Reflets.info, OWNI, the Wall Street Journal and the Figaro, Amesys, the French company that sold Internet surveillance systems to Gaddafi’s Libya tried to calm things down with a statement posted on its website (mirror):
"The contract only concerned the sale of materials capable of analysing a fraction of existing internet connections, only a few thousand."
However, the documents in OWNI’s possession tell a different story, in fact, the exact opposite story. In contrast to traditional surveillance systems that target specific connections, the “massive” (sic) Amesys surveillance system is used to intercept and analyze the entirety of the telecommunications network, to the scale of an entire country.
In its presentations for the high-end surveillance service, Amesys flaunts EAGLE as having been conceived to monitor the whole spectrum of telecommunications: IP traffic (internet), mobile and landline telephone networks, WiFi, satellite, radio and micro waves thanks to its “passive waves, invisible and inaccessible to any intruder.”
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