CDR: Re: BSA deploys imaginary pirate software detector vans

Ben Laurie ben at algroup.co.uk
Fri Nov 10 04:21:37 PST 2000


Neil Johnson wrote:
> 
> Wasn't there some articles some time ago about Microsoft doing research into
> Tempest/Van Eck (sp) radiation ? It was speculated  at the time that they
> were going include software to "broadcast" their serial numbers so that
> illegal copies could be detected.

That was a thing Ross Anderson did for Microsoft, IIRC.

Cheers,

Ben.

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