[LINK] US voting machines - problems already

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Wed Nov 1 10:54:38 AEDT 2006


That'd be?:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/31/dutch_votingmachines_inadequate/

It doesn't mention tempest though.  It appears to be some kind of  
active hacking through wireless.  These days CRT screens are much  
more vulnerable to van eck and optical tempest.  LCD screens can  
probably be shielded fairly simply.


On 2006/Nov/01, at 10:14 AM, Martin Barry wrote:

> $quoted_author = "Howard Lowndes" ;
>>
>> There's also a story, I think at The Register, that the Dutch have
>> banned them because the screen radiation can be read at a distance.
>> Think TV detector vans in the UK and the Tempest standard.  I  
>> think the
>> radiation is called super heterodyne radiation.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
>
> "...is the process of eavesdropping on the contents of a CRT or LCD  
> display
> by detecting its electromagnetic emissions."
>
> cheers
> marty
>
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> somehow.
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> $v at demon.co.uk>

Awesome.


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