Stealing Keys from PCs using a Radio
Alfonso De Gregorio
alfonso.degregorio at gmail.com
Mon Jul 13 14:02:16 PDT 2015
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 7:36 PM, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com>
>
> Subject: Stealing Keys from PCs using a Radio
>
>
> Even in 1977, when I had just built my 'Dyna Micro'
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_computer microprocessor trainer
> board, I could tell that its emanations on the AM radio band were were quite
> distinctive: I could monitor the progress of programs merely by listening
> to an otherwise-unoccupied AM frequency. While I wasn't particularly
> interested in the details at that time, it has long been obvious that a
> program could be written to emit specific data, perhaps by repeating
> segments of code based on the information to be transmitted.
> Jim Bell
>
While I was not born yet back then, less than twenty years later I
built such program, playing with control messages sent from the host
to the AT keyboard.
Alfonso
More information about the Testlist
mailing list