Can Skype be wiretapped by the authorities? (fwd from em at em.no-ip.com)
John Kelsey
kelsey.j at ix.netcom.com
Fri May 14 13:45:22 PDT 2004
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
--John Kelsey, kelsey.j at ix.netcom.com
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