The pocket black box

• Autores: Paul Marks
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2968, 2014, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Smartphones carried by passengers on board a missing Malaysia Airlines flight could yield vital information about what happened to the plane. If wreckage is found, sensors and apps on passengers' smartphones may help solve the mystery. Lithium batteries can't survive immersion, and saltwater corrodes electronics, but forensics experts can tease apart microchips and, if necessary, use scanning electron microscopes to probe the data stored in components like solid state memory chips. Indeed, some groups, such as the French air accident investigator BEA, already use this technology