On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Mike Rosing wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > > > The conspiracy theorist is telling me there's some reason they floated the > > optical tempest story, though I can't quite figure out what that reason > > is... > > The main purpose is for academic gain. If you'd looked at the paper a > bit, you'd have read it took about 1/2 an hour to reconstruct the image > from one screen. It is a proof of principle concept, enough so that > multi-billion dollar espionage agencies can think about it. At 30 fps > for a game, forget it. But for a slow typist who has to go get a cup > of coffee because the phone rang.... > > It does make the game more interesting, but it's mighty easy to defeat.
For what it's worth, a "secure viewer" that displayed text in red on a black background should make an optical tempest attack much more difficult. -MW-
