CDR: RE: Burglar Politics, Tempesting PC's that watch TV and DVD regions

[Lucky Green]

Sunder wrote, quoting
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13863.html
>
> <SNIP>
[...]
> It's my understanding that TV detector vans work by picking up
> the radiation emitted by cathode ray tube TVs - which should mean
> that, if you're rich enough to run an LCD monitor they'll never
> know you're a secret Paxman admirer.

A popular, but false, myth. The video cards radiate more than the CRT's.
Laptops tend to be the worst offenders.

--Lucky Green <shamrock at cypherpunks.to>

  "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law".
   Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in
   a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06