Bomb Law Reporter - special edition

[Phillip H. Zakas]

relevant links...

RS232 emanations (even while using shielded cables.)
http://jya.com/rs232.pdf

Expansion of van eck's original work to go from the "tv tuning" model to
full digital conversion (from turkey):
http://www.uekae.tubitak.gov.tr/informat.pdf

phillip


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cypherpunks at Algebra.COM
> [mailto:owner-cypherpunks at Algebra.COM]On Behalf Of Eugene Leitl
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 3:42 PM
> To: Faustine
> Cc: cypherpunks at lne.com
> Subject: Re: Bomb Law Reporter - special edition
>
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Faustine wrote:
>
> > emissions are simple to decode. Though in theory LCD screens emit less
> > than a VDU, recent EMC controls have greatly reduced emanations from
> > VDUs--with the result that the graphics card will often be the
> > greatest source of compromise.
>
> I'm not an expert. However, you can make extremely silent devices. It's
> not rocket science, and one of the major points towards wearables. A LART
> board burns about 1 W, and a hud type of display is low power. With less
> than braindead engineering this is trivial to shield. A hud which contains
> a built-in framebuffer will be essentially impossible to detect.  If you
> want to grow fancy, you can even encode the serial links sending commands
> to it.
>
> Can anyone give me real world data on HF signature of a Twiddler2?