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tv   The Critical Engineers  Al Jazeera  February 13, 2018 1:32am-2:00am +03

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meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state says the trumpet ministration is committed to working with egypt to defeat i still rex tillerson has discussed the issue with egypt's pharmacist create in cairo the start of his middle east tour to us and also held talks with president sisi. investigators in russia trying to determine how a passenger plane crashed just minutes after taking off killing all seventy one people on board the saratoga airlines flight was heading to or squint it plunged into a field in the countryside just outside moscow on sunday and a number of buildings in tonga including the parliament have been flattened by cycling gaeta category four storm tore roofs off houses downed power lines and caused extensive flooding in the tiny pacific nation officials have described it as the most powerful storm to hit the capital packing winds in excess of two hundred thirty kilometers an hour officials have declared a state of emergency and set up evacuation centers well that's it for myself and
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the team here in london more news coming up from doha at the top of the next hour off to rebel geeks which starts now. al jazeera. where ever your. digital technology is the promise of intimacy and easement and even longer not. even a g.g. billions of calculations in our pockets it seems we discovered a need i mention. in which everything in our lives can be increased and tracked and intent is money. that is convenience profit and surveillance the only use these powers. now the new generation of the book eat easiness skills to
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challenge the tech giants. and enable a different technological future. one where people are not the product of. the. book we just need to watch. we just need. you know where the where we're going to work with the blood of if it for instance blows on to these cases that could best be very fragile. steadily so. there is a bit. of a of a strong sense of urgency to see a launch. what i was aware of though is my sense of urgency can
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offer cloud my better judgment and. i could assist of doing something that is just simply. too high risk. to. get a price off my plants but if they're going to bite off. they're going to write. with a goddess. julien's i don't. face those and for quite some time of course myself a critical engineer also an artist but a first first first and foremost a credit engineer. one of the things that i do mind work is to create projects which engender a healthy paranoia. for projects like min
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which was two thousand and nine. we wandering around various cities trista's in grey suits with suitcases that had displays on them. collecting and harvesting checked stations and websites. and presenting on the surface of this brief case. we've chiefs a lot of paranoia. when you start to show that technology is not necessarily being transparent in itself as to your dealings with it you see some pretty on pretty interesting moments chores are turned. people get new friends running out of a checking. many of us have known for a long time and even who warned against the risks of having implicit trust and technology we don't understand most particularly network infrastructure. used to
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make as a plug it redirects all of the traffic coming from the russia the owner of that news tweet box came in to put out the news or read on that wireless network. you can manipulate sporting results or electoral results will use headlines. to see the low ground we see the graphics and we think that it's coming directly from the b.b.c. to our fine if it's in the media it can be manipulated and you can be manipulated to. engineering is perhaps the most transformative language of our time engineering shapes the way that we move communicate and think . critically generic seeks to look at engineering as something that we need to grapple with on political terms.
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the deep sleep is a means to read the surveillance infrastructure in the skies from the earth to the stratosphere. recently there are a large number of unmanned aerial vehicles that are made by companies whose clients are governments clipping information from saladin networks on my boat communications these aircraft and the communications are outside of the denying of what's understood to be. civilian knowledge. the need to understand what's going on in. terms. we start to learning about drawings and the role a lot from the use of drones by the u.s. military contractors in places like thought i was just part of pakistan in him and in somalia there was useful surveillance aren't there to be persistently in the air
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and it's collecting everything to all the waves just send signals photography in for riot we know but a little hole over there bowed to actual permissions for millions drawings in country in germany and other places because there's no way of gathering that information most of disapprobation is our secret. so the subject here is what would be referred to as the pile-o. day of our. project is the very first version and it is it contains with radio frequency equipment. a very small computer. and a micro what's called a microcontroller which is a very simple sort of computer it's designed to go into the stratosphere carried by with a balloon. when you getting up into fifteen and twenty
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are kilometers above the earth that's when you would really be above a drop and the satellites that they're getting to are one of the hopes is that maybe it will catch a little bit of that kind of thing and at least see evidence of communication going going upward. at the point of its absolute peak the balloon bursts and the parachute or the neck that it comes all the way back down again. we have a bunch of different i'm telling us for receiving different kinds of reducing ups this one goes from zero to thirty megahertz that that's a lot of marine naval military stuff with this one timer we find for example mobile phones at least these some tell us are traditionally used to. look at satellites or receive signals from satellites but we're actually pointing at the watch to just gigahertz receptions or transmissions
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from what's going on below where this is in the sky initially we just need to get it up there and and then let it do its work in the movie able to make further adjustments and improve its. improve its performance. first launching a series. we're just doing a full power start up test we don't want to know what we're actually taking out there when we go out there very soon and i fix it. i'll go outside for a little bit. i'm just waiting for it for a g.p.s. fix. this phone received the same as from the g.p.s. satellites. if it doesn't have
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a fix it seems that it doesn't report to the position properly. giulio. nothing yet. written receptive then restored to it. i mean there's the restart. the connection. not really we have been running for a couple of days on one battery and that was great but now. all of the better reese just drained extremely quickly and we don't know why. this month for the video just load. was not good enough to use already so
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we're we're really on the come to this place. we just horribly behind get it in the big jumps and. here's the knife. and yours in his fitness reach none last night i fall the day before was quite good you didn't have any and i know this went. well that's something good. to rake it off until you have treated last but just bloody my. does it say new zealand it's a good disease to have. i think it's one. there isn't one large contingency and that's the airspace with or he's new one just launched from a balloon with a big shiny ball underneath full of computational equipment without the paperwork a lot of paperwork i think.
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to be safe. we will get a new battery tomorrow morning. because we really don't want it's a failure. hoffer satellite. often almost something like. the technology will not go away i would say it's a very serious thing every. time something about how the us. government's take one extra step towards. extending the surveillance apparatus.
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and we have basically have not. really momentum going the other way. it's very important to to look at drug study use for surveillance to collect data. it's creating an archive that is permanent. this data is being used to define what is the standard behavior of a normal group or person and as an out food what is the outlier behavior and that creates a very sophisticated one way suv in system. and is operating the grace of law. i would say human rights a regulation. the drawn in so it's just a flying object what matters is what kind of to what is being attacked and who is using the out information.
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in psychiatry's an extra antenna that pretends to be one of the official ones and makes a device communicate with them so it can be listened to. it's commonly known and psychiatrists are being muscled news by law enforcement in many countries and we know that i am sick of as i use on drugs. if you think police departments now acquiring drone technology from small to big build such that they can be fitted with cameras then you can be sure that our skies
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are going to be full of a hell of a lot of rights compromising mitchell quite clearly there's a lot of interest in making sure that we the people don't know about it and don't know the extent of it so how else learn some hardware what else i mean when i still have. the major problem yesterday was the battery. and now we have well actually we've got another charger and we've got this and your battery as well. this is hundred and seven grams together and sending hundred ten grams extra up into the structure doesn't make sense so what we're doing is just putting the right
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kind of connector directly. on this box so we don't have. this dead weight. it will give us hopefully a couple of thousand meters of extra altitude before the balloon burst just based on the decreased weight. we're going to launch this thing into the stratosphere and them we will not see them for a few hours. hopefully we will see together. twenty two. to go. here go. in with the other person first.
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never getting to yes. it's exciting to explore what is out there when we get the data back we're. going to have to try to figure out what it extremist and what a comfort. we have no illusions of flipping i would rate the contents of communication between the mysterious high altitude the eccles and the satellites that i talked to. we aren't interested and and fingerprinting devices providing material for people to be able to guess and ultimately determine what is in the skies above them. both out of chute of twenty five point four kilometers and that would have one hundred one hundred fifty eight minutes to get there hundred fifty eight minutes to burst. we're just
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looking at calculating how high it will get into and how much he leaves required because that indicates the the drift of the balloon potentially and it can make a difference between twenty kilometers and two hundred kilometers this is ok for us . but really. when london home. yeah we have to be painting too and then some polish some polish and least the basic greetings and. the fama family's farm and polish things back is going to be a big red this is we can't really wait too long because we have pushing for a limited period we've already we're losing that commission as we as it is beach at . micro nation at the moment is to is to pick a bit a day where it's work this is. but if it would just come calms down a little bit of it maybe it's it's just hard.
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or or so your routine at sea would be to launch now and then and then jump in the cargo and try to find it immediately dr edward called. you know. what sail to steer so. we can get bigger. and we can use these anchors two by the way. and. you. seem to get the good.
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it is very some of the certain kinds of squids the bodies of squids yes. there was easily as i reckon it's. both books on both. the male word about the body of the little. lower stress on the neck of the blue. you can have told a string the title is no joke it's like a it's a so don't don't well if it really really really really really really grab any couple to hands on the on the problem. it would be so obviously quite cathartic having support and sort of finish to what is otherwise been quite a bit of work but little concerned about the way the blue lost for instance with the meterological community is three out of five last. night. everything this man accompanied in this we're not. really doing this.
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i worry about the kind of really lifts this way i mean it's supposed to. supposed to be able to you know so we're just like i shake hands. with one two three. trees. just a little. unbelievable there goes it's pretty. incredible to done this. you know looking. where with this thing go who ever say to go.
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to i was kind to not. came three hours kind four and five and then we started to become a little bit despondent damn you know we haven't. we've lost track of it so we went to bed and put on all those lawsuits most and then sure enough the next morning we're going to finish and then go and i mean particularly it's kaliningrad it's flying out of kaliningrad and eventually a very uncomfortable silence from it and then another estimates and it landed in a field in minsk better or worse. several thousand kilometers away which is incredible blue when up to just over ten kilometers. and then it probably encountered high altitude winds and was pushed east at a massive at a massive speed. we
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believe that the deep sleep was the first civilian earth to stratosphere skin is routinely done by military but we believe with the first we got plenty of interesting forms if you like shapes that indicate traffic and activity. if i just drop the scroll bar down we actually see the way forward presentation so this is the low low frequencies this is the mid range and this is the the high frequencies and we see as we go from the dick across like this point to point we see where there was there was in a jet phenomena the saying that is peaks and drops and and rise of falls much like a mountain range or suppose. the low frequencies are predictably very
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energetic you've obviously got a lot of moraine more to call astronomical in the sense of right or astronomy you've got a hell of a lot of stuff is nine to be occurring there and it's predictably. high we started to see different things the higher we got and we see some very interesting traffic in the mid range ten kilometers above the earth and we start seeing activity in it at one thousand three hundred megahertz you know we start seeing this this stuff going on there and what's happening at that at that altitude at one thousand three hundred megahertz and that's curious for us. and in the high. there were these very interesting sort of last minute bursts. and i passenger planes are known to be flying at that time and they're not they're
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not speaking of those frequencies anyway so. what is that. maybe it's a scientific project of some sort maybe doesn't allow terri or whatever. there are some very distinct manmade shapes that you can only end in what is that one of that doing it that our church i mean this is this is curious. we don't know what it is but it's. at exciting to ny that we can actually get up there and say it and did it . we we caught something obviously there. lots of people can do this it's not illegal to study the air above us says that the mains and not available.
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