[8040] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: BSA deploys imaginary pirate software detector vans
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Nov 13 13:16:18 2000
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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:21:37 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: Neil Johnson <njohnson@interl.net>
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Neil Johnson wrote:
>
> Wasn't there some articles some time ago about Microsoft doing research into
> Tempest/Van Eck (sp) radiation ? It was speculated at the time that they
> were going include software to "broadcast" their serial numbers so that
> illegal copies could be detected.
That was a thing Ross Anderson did for Microsoft, IIRC.
Cheers,
Ben.
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