At 5:32 PM -0800 11/1/98, Lucky Green wrote:
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bill Stewart wrote: [...]
Just using a regular laptop isn't enough; I've seen laptops transmit recognizable images to a television (though I was probably using AC power rather than batteries, and may or may not have had the display mode set to LCD-and-monitor.)
Thanks for touching on the popuar myth that laptops radiate less than CRT's. Many laptops in fact radiate more compromising emissions than CRT's. Ross Anderson does his van Eck demos to undergrads using a laptop, because it works so much better than CRT's.
But laptops are certainly smaller than desktops + monitors are, and can be run off of batteries. This makes laptops better candidates for a sealed box commercial product. --Tim May Y2K: A good chance to reformat America's hard drive and empty the trash. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.