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

[Steve Furlong]

Lucky Green wrote:
> 
> Sunder wrote, quoting
> > 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.

Cables are a problem, too. Video signals from a fully-shielded computer
connected to a fully-shielded monitor by a regular, unshielded cable can
be read. Effective snooping distance goes down, though I don't remember
by what factor.

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