[116955] in Cypherpunks
Listening to electronics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Aug 24 10:54:56 1999
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:24:35 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199908241424.QAA05506@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 02:38 AM 8/24/99 -0400, Dave Emery wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 11:06:40AM -0700, Scott Guthery wrote:
>>
>> Play? Heck, that's how we debugged programs. You could
>> listen to and count your loops. Vacuum tube machines such
>> as the IBM 650 and PC machines such as the 1620 and 1401
>> were all programmed with help of the the transistor radio debugging
>> tool.
>
> I've done that a little over the years (many years ago mostly),
>but at DG in the 70s we really had a similar feature for some years
>built into the old Novas. You see, the switching power supply on those
So this is prior art on the power analysis attacks on smartcards? Using
your ears (like early EEs) where today they use scopes?
Enrico Fermi used to monitor the cyclotron from miles away using a regular
radio.
When it stopped operating, he would call them up to help with the problem.
