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[RSS] - Stealing Encryption Keys Just by Touching a Laptop - rssdog - 08-28-2014
Stealing Encryption Keys Just by Touching a Laptop
As far sci-fi movies have been entertaining the public, but their ideas have always been a matter of adoption in real life. Just like in any other sci-fi movie, simply touching a laptop can be enough to extract the cryptographic keys used to secure data stored on it.
A team of computer security experts at Tel Aviv University (Israel) has come up with a new potentially much simpler method
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