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CRT Eavesdropping: Optical Tempest

Posted by michael on from the tinfoil-house dept.

PortalCell writes "LED status monitors may potentially leak data in a few applications, but worse: Markus Kuhn has now revealed (pdf) that it's possible to read your monitor indirectly just by observing how the blue flicker lights up the room! Forget taping up LEDs or living in a metal box - now you might have to do without sunlight to be secure!" Hopefully people will also stop submitting the LED story now.

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  1. Sunlight? by Knunov · · Score: 2, Redundant

    "Forget taping up LEDs or living in a metal box - now you might have to do without sunlight to be secure!"

    What's this 'sunlight' I keep hearing about?

    Knunov

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  2. TFT! by ThatComputerGuy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yeah, I better get my Tin Foil Top out too..

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