On 16/12/20 9:11 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote:
Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems ...
TEMPEST* was something spooks whispered about in the cold war, but has
been public knowledge for decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)#History
There are well known ways to shield equipment, ranging from carefully
designed metal cases on equipment, to everyone working in a room which
looks like a walk-in fridge.
* TEMPEST supposedly stands for "Telecommunications Electronics
Materials Protected from Emanating Spurious Transmissions", but may be a
backronym.
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