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user-inactivated  ·  3012 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today in "Is it For Real, or another episode of Madame Secretary"

    Incidentally, they can now hack air-gapped computers by getting close enough to it with a sensitive antenna

You say "now", but the NATO selection process for TEMPEST-secure devices comes from 1981. Way before that, there was laser eavesdropping and the KGB bugging the American embassy through "electromagnetic flooding", whatever that is.