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New Scientist Article on Do-it-yourself Evesdropping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Minow)
Mon Nov 8 13:34:21 1999
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Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 09:43:53 -0800
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"SOFTWARE that allows a computer to receive radio signals could make
spying on
other computers all too simple, according to two scientists at the
University of
Cambridge. Such are the dangers that they are patenting countermeasures
that
computer manufacturers can take to foil any electronic eavesdroppers. "
[I note that there are several commercially-available shortwave radios
that are
designed to be controlled by computer, and the technology is well within
the
capability of a reasonably skilled hobbiest. See recent issues in the
amateur radio
magazine, QST, for one example of a radio using a digital signal
processor for
signal management and overall control.]
Transcribed by Martin Minow, <minow@pobox.com>
