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Stealing Encryption Keys Just by Touching a Laptop
« on: August 27, 2014, 04:41:16 pm »
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 that lets you steal data from computers — Just Touch it — literally.   :o


http://thehackernews.com/2014/08/stealing-encryption-keys-just-by.html
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