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Time cloak used to hide messages in laser light
newscientist ^ | 11:11 28 November 2014 by | Aviva Rutkin

Posted on 12/01/2014 4:33:57 PM PST by BenLurkin

Last year, a team at Purdue University in Indiana built a cloak that could transfer hidden data at 1.5 gigabits a second, fast enough to make it theoretically useful for real communication. The only thing was, the message was hidden so well that no one could actually read it. That problem has now been solved.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: data; datatransfer; laser

1 posted on 12/01/2014 4:33:57 PM PST by BenLurkin
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.. and they have a "dating service" link. 💥
2 posted on 12/01/2014 4:45:58 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: BenLurkin

We may need this to get some NET privacy...


3 posted on 12/01/2014 4:48:10 PM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: BenLurkin

You have to read between the photons.


4 posted on 12/01/2014 5:01:21 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: BenLurkin

5 minutes after the invention, several government agencies were demanding back door access to the data.


5 posted on 12/01/2014 5:04:49 PM PST by Redcitizen (.)
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To: BenLurkin

D r i n k y o u r O v a l t i n e .


6 posted on 12/01/2014 5:20:30 PM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: BenLurkin

We freepers can use this for communications when we plot the overthrow of the federal government.
Bwahahaha!


7 posted on 12/01/2014 5:27:20 PM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: BenLurkin

WOMs. Write Only Memory.


8 posted on 12/01/2014 5:55:19 PM PST by Bob Mc
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To: BenLurkin

Isnt this just DWDM? If the other end doesnt know to look for different lambda’s, it’s invisible communication.


9 posted on 12/01/2014 5:56:29 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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"With this new device, we don't just limit ourselves to thinking about cloaks as a way of preventing somebody from getting information, but also as a way to enable communication," says Joseph Lukens, an electrical engineer at Purdue. "One guy sees nothing, the other guy sees everything."

In other words, liberals and conservatives.

10 posted on 12/01/2014 5:58:51 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Redcitizen

The backdoor access was a condition of the Federal funding they received ...


11 posted on 12/02/2014 4:23:11 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Just a unnoticeable way for the NSA to suck data out of your computer faster.


12 posted on 12/02/2014 6:52:14 PM PST by FreeInWV (Have you had enough change yet?)
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The only thing was, the message was hidden so well that no one could actually read it.


13 posted on 12/02/2014 7:14:05 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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