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Latest privacy threat: Monitor glow

May 14th, 2002 · No Comments

Law enforcement and intelligence agents may have a new tool to read the data displayed on a suspect’s computer monitor, even when they can’t see the screen. Marcus Kuhn, an associate professor at Cambridge University in England, presented research Monday showing how anybody with a brawny PC, a special light detector and some lab hardware could reconstruct what a person sees on the screen by catching the reflected glow from the monitor.
CNET News.com

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