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Wasn't this something that was also revealed by Snowden to be a technique in wide-spread use within the NSA's little community of human-rights abusing miscreant
by boffinAudio 2y ago
Wasn't this something that was also revealed by Snowden to be a technique in wide-spread use within the NSA's little community of human-rights abusing miscreants?
- vessenes 2y agoTEMPEST attacks have been publicly known about since the late 1990s, and feature as a sort of attack macguffin in Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon (1999). They have generally been thought to be in the domain of persistent threat actors; tech like this makes the attack more accessible — whether you like the idea of that or not probably depends on your politics and tech background, though.
- boffinAudio 2y agoOh, sure, TEMPEST attacks are as old as the hills. But being able to do this with modern standards such as HDMI seems quite lame, because .. >tech like this makes the attack more accessible .. shouldn't new tech address this bug? It doesn't matter where you are in the world, this is not a feature. Human rights are inalienable.