How your computer's secrets could be cracked by a smartphone just LISTENING to it as it runs its encryption software

How your computer's secrets could be cracked by a smartphone just LISTENING to it as it runs its encryption software | Mail Online: "The hum your made by your computer's microprocessor could be used by an eavesdropper to to crack your digital encryption keys, new research claims.



Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have shown that merely listening to the quiet vibrations made by a computer can reveal what operations it is running. Those sounds can be analysed so precisely, they claim, they can even reveal the details of encryption keys used for secure web browsing, credit card transactions and encrypted email."