CRT Eavesdropping: Optical Tempest

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.

Comments

Well.

[electricmonk]

now you might have to do without sunlight to be secure!

This certainly explains Linux's stellar security record of late.