Can Skype be wiretapped by the authorities? (fwd from em at em.no-ip.com)

[John Kelsey]

At 01:40 PM 5/10/04 -0500, Brian Dunbar wrote:

>On May 10, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Jack Lloyd wrote:
>
>>Like it matters. Do you really think that the government would really allow
>>Intel and AMD to sell CPUs that didn't have tiny transmitters in them? 
>>Your CPU
>>is actually transmitting every instruction it executes to the satellites.
>
>That's a subtle bit of humor, right?

Actually, pretty much all unshielded computer hardware effectively has a 
transmitter in it.  Google for "side-channel attacks" "DPA" and "TEMPEST" 
for more info.  That's not a matter of transmitting to the satellites, but 
it may be a matter of transmitting to the van parked outside your house....

>~~brian

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