by Ronen Ijadi on August 11, 2010
Solar storms are extremely powerful natural disasters, and they are able to cause a tremendous amount of economic damage. During a typical solar storm, the sun’s surface flares up and massive fireballs are shot into the Earth’s atmosphere. This often results in the harming of many of the electrical waves back down on earth; [...]
by Ronen Ijadi on July 27, 2010
Last week, the military went through a massive signal blackout, rendering all their GPS based equipment useless. The signal was only lost for about 10 minutes, but this begs the question: how vulnerable were we for those 10 minutes? The military is in possession of over 10,000 GPS receivers, which they use on almost all [...]
