Between this and the other recent exploits that are aided by having EVER MORE PERFORMANT JAVASCRIPT, maybe we should pump the brakes a little on things like wasm and other tools.
Publicly available documents already discuss exfiltration from secured systems using various electromagnetic radiations. This is documented in the TEMPEST guidelines published by the US National Security Agency and the US Department of Defense. This project simply adds to that discussion.
To be clear, that annoyance was not for the authors of this repo (who did very neat work!), but for the public at large seemingly militantly against any form of secure practices and the devs who enable that.
Good thing this was never a known security threat vector.
Between this and the other recent exploits that are aided by having EVER MORE PERFORMANT JAVASCRIPT, maybe we should pump the brakes a little on things like wasm and other tools.
Indeed, have they never read Cryptonomicon ?
That part of the book was so weird.
I thought it rather cool actually. Defeating Van Eck phreaking by using the caps lock LED as an output device :)
I was referring to the first mention of Van Eck phreaking where some hackers read some very weird erotica…
To be fair, they do mention related works on the github repo’s README.
https://www.usenix.org/node/190937
Also from the README:
(Emphasis mine)
To be clear, that annoyance was not for the authors of this repo (who did very neat work!), but for the public at large seemingly militantly against any form of secure practices and the devs who enable that.