Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Chat Rooms Information Uploaded To Communications Device on Moon (SAT PAR News Jun 10, 2014) A radio astronomer based at the Australia Telescope National Facility has detected massive uploads of data to a high-speed laser communications device recently launched to the moon. Dr. Levy Trundley noticed the upload during a routine wide scan of radio and visible light frequencies, The source of the upload appeared to be from a ship in the Indian ocean. Dr. Trundley determined the nature of the data as it was  not encrypted. "These are public postings from thousands of chat rooms and discussion boards, not just the main rooms but all the sub-topic rooms and channels. It is a tremendous amount of data, while some chat rooms are text based, there are many boards with images and videos. The laser communications needs a clear path to transmit so when on a recent night  when there were no storms, I recorded a huge blast of data being sent to to Resource LLCSR1, the communications device on the moon is public knowledge, but the details of exactly how it operates are classified". Civil libertarians are not exactly sure how to respond as some believe it may just be a test of what is know as "proof of concept", to see if the system works. Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon when asked about the issues said, "While it is public information, we do not know what it is being used for, and are they referencing old posts on these discussion rooms which may have no bearing on the individuals today. We are actively looking at this. First we must determine who is behind these communications to begin a dialog to find answer our questions."

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