Pita Bread Radio Can Hack Through Any Laptop’s Encryption
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Researchers at Tel Aviv University have come up with a clever way to hack into laptops: using a radio receiver and a piece of pita bread.
The researchers published their findings online, showing that many laptop models give off electromagnetic radiation that can be manipulated into revealing the passwords stored on laptops.
Laptops running encryption programs could be fooled into revealing passwords when sent encrypted passages of text. Laptops would then encrypt the data, and researchers used components from a radio to pick up the changes in the electromagnetic radiation as the laptop's CPU works.
