Re: "Keyboard sniffers to steal data" (BBC)

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>]

> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:35:44 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
> To: Paul Vixie <vixie () isc org>
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] "Keyboard sniffers to steal data" (BBC)
>
> While this is obviously cool, it amazes me peole fin dthis so amazing when 
> the technology is 50 years old. I guess we are all just code monkies this 
> day and age.

I don't know that it is 50 years old.  I *do* know, though, that the
technology was available in the early to mid-1980's.  I remember
reading about it whilst I was in Korea and trying to figure out which
type of machine to get for my office at the MAAG.  (Had to be TEMPEST
certified.)

> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> > ...
> >
> > In their work the researchers used a radio antenna to "fully or partially
> > recover keystrokes" by spotting the electromagnetic radiation emitted when
> > keys were pressed.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7681534.stm
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