17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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. -- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred.