Paranoid thinking is an extremely valuable asset for security researchers. The things we're all joking about are impractical for an average person, but in a spy

Paranoid thinking is an extremely valuable asset for security researchers. The things we're all joking about are impractical for an average person, but in a spy vs. spy scenario, especially when each side is well funded, these are the kind of things that will actually get used. Examples of genuine vulnerabilities that would make you look paranoid just by defending against: * Make educated guesses about passwords from a microphone recording of the keypresses. Both the intervals between keypresses indicate the region of the keyboard being touched, and the sound of each key differs slightly. Given a statistically significant sample of typing, you could deduce which keys are which based on the frequency of their use. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11318 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11318 * Read a screen through a reflection, even from far away http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/spying_on_compu.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/spying_on_comp...