Hackers can read your keyboard by listening to the sounds it makes.
Hackers can hear what you're saying by bouncing a light beam off your window.
Nothing new, move along.
There was a interesting one a while back where bad grounding on a PSU could let you read the interference on the ground from outside of a house and determine what is being typed on a keyboard.
Nothing new, I just find these methods of data extraction interesting.
Side-channels. Similar principles to the work-effort a cpu may make in processing crypto thereby alluding to the algo used, even potential key space.
But what about the 300bps subcarrier channel on the MicroChannel bus that's allowing the Russian hackers to dowload your freedoms?
They'll have to contend with my dual-homed dsl trunk lines. I keep everything else on POTS honey lines with party chat features
You can use wifi signals to map the interior of a home.
I can do that with the local tax authority's published plans of most of the houses around here.
Easier to fly in the window and check it out yourself.
You can map the current location of the people in the home.
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