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Jeremiah Blatz (jer+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:15:40 -0500
The Spectre <spectre@anthrax.net> writes:
> At 17:41 3/17/98 , you wrote:
>
> >* Original: FROM: BILL SMITH, Fidonet
> >
> > EID:F58A FC6C6460
> >Electronic Telegraph Thursday 12 March 1998
> >Issue 1021
> >
> >Detector van to nab software
> >pirates
> >By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
>
> I just have to ask, is there any more to back up this story? IMHO, it
> sounds like a lot of to-do about Van Eck stuff. I've never heard, however,
> about being able to vary the signals sent to the screen to display
> something else entirely on another monitor, or in *any* way to view
> software licenses.
AFAIK, this is possible. Some guy mand a TEMPEST-proof font, one of
his earlier tricks was a font where certain letter combinations read
as something else on TEMPEST equipment.
> Besides, how many vans will it take to cover every house in the world?
Well, you don't have to cover *every* house, just *any* house. THe
Brits have vans that roam around looking for unlisenced sattelite
receivers, and it provides a pretty effective deterrant.
Jer
"standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole
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