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Researchers Sniff Keystrokes From Thin Air, Wires
narramissic writes "Two separate research teams have found that the electromagnetic radiation that is generated when a computer keyboard is tapped is actually pretty easy to capture and decode. Using an oscilloscope and an inexpensive wireless antenna, the Ecole Polytechnique team was able to pick up keystrokes from virtually any keyboard, including laptops — with 95 percent accuracy over a distance of up to 20 meters. Using similar techniques, Inverse Path researchers Andrea Barisani and Daniele Bianco picked out keyboard signals from keyboard ground cables. On PS/2 keyboards, 'the data cable is so close to the ground cable, the emanations from the data cable leak onto the ground cable, which acts as an antenna,' Barisani said. That ground wire passes through the PC and into the building's power wires, where the researchers can pick up the signals using a computer, an oscilloscope and about $500 worth of other equipment. Barisani and Bianco will present their findings at the CanSecWest hacking conference next week in Vancouver. The Ecole Polytechnique team has submitted their research for peer review and hopes to publish it very soon."
...What makes, eg. bidding/negotiations some form of "evil plans"? Such methods certainly require secrecy on the part of BOTH parties....
Requirement of secrecy in such negotiations is based on the assumption that in such a world there would still be competition such as is with us in our world. In a world where there is only cooperation, but no competition, secrecy would be unnecessary, in fact detrimental.
Centuries before Jesus Christ walked on this earth, the prophet Isaiah wrote:
Isaiah 11:6 Also the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the cub lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
According to this prophecy, the competitive system of eat or be eaten will be done away with at some point in the future. In our present world animals have to kill other animals in order to live. This will no longer be the case for the days that the Prophet is writing about. Everybody will be a vegetarian and the competitive struggle for existence will cease. Nature has not always been what we observe today and it will not be in the future. Poverty, want and deprivation will no longer exist on the renewed earth.
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