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On her microphone's secret service: How spies, anyone can grab crypto keys from the air

Dave 126 Silver badge

Re: Mobile computing

With acoustically transparent cloth - y'know, the sort of thing hi-fi speakers are clad with - a parabolic dish can be disguised as a suitcase. Or indeed, a loudspeaker.

It appears on first thoughts that a easy enough countermeasure would be to generate noise - maybe just have your computer run through some redundant, unused crypto algorithms.

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