mcc on Nostr: I wonder if a sufficiently good smartgrid could TEMPEST sidechannel deduce things out ...
I wonder if a sufficiently good smartgrid could TEMPEST sidechannel deduce things out of a computer plugged into it. Like maybe decryption produces noticeable signals in tiny-fraction-of-second power draw to such an extent it starts to seem plausible you can gradually derive keys from it
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2026-10-26 20:35:18 UTCEvent JSON
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