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AI can see what's on your screen by reading HDMI electromagnetic radiation (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Espiritdescali to c/futurology

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[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Memex they're taking about (Angleton is a character from The Laundry Files) is an electromechanical filing system for microfiche.

It was never built IRL, so it's difficult to get into the nitty-gritty of security details, but I'm pretty sure that Van Eck phreaking would get you at most the index positions of the documents being accessed, and you'd need optical surveillance to discover their content.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

You're right, of course, though the metadata it'd reveal about the indexing system would probably still be useful in the right context..

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for explaining it 🙂
I've been on the road all day and haven't had the chance