It sounds like something out of an episode of Spooks: Researchers have discovered a way to use simple touch to decode the cryptography keys that are intended to secure your information. It's as easy as gauging the electric potential coursing through your computer while it's working.
In the MIT Technology Review today, we learn of a paper out of Tel Aviv University (title: Get Your Hands Off My Laptop) that details the process of measuring the ground electric potential in laptops. There are several ways to do this: You could, say, use a wire. But that's not nearly as exciting as using your own hand — preferably sweaty! — and then "analyzing that signal using sophisticated software."
Read More: http://gizmodo.com/scientists-hack-cryptography-keys-by-simply-touching-a-1624641299
In the MIT Technology Review today, we learn of a paper out of Tel Aviv University (title: Get Your Hands Off My Laptop) that details the process of measuring the ground electric potential in laptops. There are several ways to do this: You could, say, use a wire. But that's not nearly as exciting as using your own hand — preferably sweaty! — and then "analyzing that signal using sophisticated software."
Read More: http://gizmodo.com/scientists-hack-cryptography-keys-by-simply-touching-a-1624641299
