[liberationtech] (Damn department) Automated remote iPad key snooping

[Steve Weis]

I'll add this to the long list of cool side-channel attacks that I
don't really worry about.

"Electromagnetic Radiation from Video Display Units: An Eavesdropping Risk?"
http://cryptome.org/emr.pdf

"Compromising Reflections, or How to Read LCD Monitors Around the Corner"
http://www.infsec.cs.uni-saarland.de/projects/reflections/

"Keyboard Acoustic Emanations"
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.89.8231&rep=rep1&type=pdf

"Keyboard Acoustic Emanations Revisited"
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Keyboard_Acoustic_Emanations_Revisited/ccs.pdf

"Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens"
http://www.usenix.org/event/woot10/tech/full_papers/Aviv.pdf

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Daniel Isaiah Ong
<danielo at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> I'd be quite doubtful of its ability to do anything really meaningful. It seems to require a 90degree full on angle, and pretty close up too. I would be pretty doubtful of say the ability of e.g. security cameras to capture iPad passwords...