Time Holes!

I try to keep abreast of the latest in science and technology, especially when that science is related to Sci-Fi. Since I already keep track of Sci-Fi, it's rare for me to find a breakthrough that I've heard about the first time. Which is why this one is so mind-numbing to me:

Time Cloaking

The premise is so simple that I did a mental forehead-slap when I read about it. To cloak time, all you do is compress light in time (take a beam of light which travels in 15ns, compress it so that it seems like it travelled 10ns) and then decompress it (after 5ns, so that it appears to have travelled for 15ns).
The end result is a "hole" of 5ns which can't be observed by whoever is actually observing that light beam. For a better idea, see the image at the link.

This poses immense potential for applications of the unethical kind. Even at the microscopic level, optic fibers could be hacked, manipulated and the data would have no evidence of being tampered with since time and light both would appear to be the same for the observer.

Anti-Bore Rating: 3/5 TARDIS