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fromWIRED
1 day ago

How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers

The movements of a hard drive's components, keystrokes on a keyboard, even the electric charge in a semiconductor's wires produce radio waves, sound, and vibrations that transmit in all directions and can-when picked up by someone with sufficiently sensitive equipment and enough spycraft to decipher those signals-reveal your private data and activities.
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fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

Modern compilers optimize away security protections, causing constant-time and other defensive code to fail and reintroducing side-channel vulnerabilities.
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