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Title: Is it time to tell your CPU to STFU?
Post by: markjo on December 19, 2013, 02:52:43 PM
It seems that it's possible to extract certain RSA keys by listening to the sounds that your CPU makes.
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/
Title: Re: Is it time to tell your CPU to STFU?
Post by: Rushy on December 29, 2013, 05:47:07 PM
By placing a parabolic microphone inches from it while it creates the key. The NSA probably already has a chip backdoor anyway, so this is hardly thought provoking.
Title: Re: Is it time to tell your CPU to STFU?
Post by: Blanko on December 29, 2013, 05:51:31 PM
Quote from: Irushwithscvs on December 29, 2013, 05:47:07 PM
By placing a parabolic microphone inches from it while it creates the key. The NSA probably already has a chip backdoor anyway, so this is hardly thought provoking.

Speaking of which... http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html
Title: Re: Is it time to tell your CPU to STFU?
Post by: Lord Dave on December 29, 2013, 07:34:30 PM
Quote from: Blanko on December 29, 2013, 05:51:31 PM
Quote from: Irushwithscvs on December 29, 2013, 05:47:07 PM
By placing a parabolic microphone inches from it while it creates the key. The NSA probably already has a chip backdoor anyway, so this is hardly thought provoking.

Speaking of which... http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html

6 months before its hacked.

As for OP:
Meh.  With the right equipment, keyboard key strokes can be digitally detected from like 30m away.
Title: Re: Is it time to tell your CPU to STFU?
Post by: Rushy on December 29, 2013, 08:38:18 PM
Quote from: Lord Dave on December 29, 2013, 07:34:30 PM
Meh.  With the right equipment, keyboard key strokes can be digitally detected from like 30m away.

This is why secure IT facilities do not have windows and have carpet on the walls.