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And Neal Stephenson used the word numerous times in his Cryptonomicon, to describe the practice of extracting from a distance what was being displayed on a computer monitor by analyzing the microradiation it emitted.
"von Eck phreaking," he called it, with enough a sense of everyone-knows-that to make you wonder whether it really was a well-established phenomenon. Or at least a potential (though as-yet-unrealized) one.
EDIT: Memory is indeed fallible. Should have been van Eck. Thanks, Bill !
12/14/2003 4:17 pm EST
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted phreaking Krzysztof 11/16/03 07:12 PM Re: phreaking wwh 11/16/03 07:20 PM Re: phreaking Capfka 12/08/03 05:51 PM Phreaking out wofahulicodoc 12/14/03 03:47 PM Re: Phreaking out sjmaxq 12/14/03 06:01 PM Re: Von Eck Phreaking out Faldage 12/14/03 07:19 PM Re: Von Eck Phreaking out of troy 12/14/03 07:40 PM Re: Von Eck Phreaking out wwh 12/14/03 07:59 PM Correction, please wofahulicodoc 12/14/03 08:15 PM since1985, no less! wofahulicodoc 12/15/03 12:55 AM Re: since1985, no less! Buffalo Shrdlu 12/15/03 01:03 AM In the immortal words of Major Hoople... wofahulicodoc 12/15/03 01:07 AM Re: since1985, no less! maverick 01/07/04 04:34 PM Re: since1985, no less! musick 01/08/04 10:29 PM Re: phreaking jheem 01/14/04 11:36 PM Re: phreaking Capfka 01/15/04 08:55 PM Re: phreaking wwh 01/15/04 09:04 PM Re: phreaking Wordwind 01/19/04 04:01 PM Re: phreaking wwh 01/19/04 04:45 PM
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