Now, what the hell ?

[jinx]

Interesting indeed, do you believe it ? Should we tape up our leds ?

Computer spy methods discovered in LED lights
(http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/03/07/spy_methods.html)


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[Uranium-235]

Thank god the led connector for my hard drive has too many prongs for my motherboard eh?

/me desolders led from nic

[vee_ess]

i got some of my led connectors mixed up. he he he to eavesdroppers.

[thetechfreak]

no offence but THIS IS OLD!!!

it was posted on /. over 2 weeks ago IIRC

i need to come here more often and post this stuff when it happens lol

[vee_ess]

This guy must have a whole lot of integrity to have made this public; he could have made himself rich with those ATM's.

[Audio-guru]

where will this paranoia spreading shit stop,

come on who in thier right mind is going to start taping up thier leds because some nut case might be outside with some transmitter taping into thier porn sites.

This is along the same lines as the (totally) blown out of proportion Y2K histeria, geez wasnt that a combined waste of energy.

In my opinion this is still a major issue for the computer industary,
you see pc`s are still classed as novel if you will. That is to say a thoery like the one above, which if respectively applied to a normal, and more generally accepted practice would be laughed out of town. And wouldent make any news source, however it is still acceptable in the pc industary because the majority of people out thier are technophobes who quite frankly dont know any better, and will openly admit that thier in no real position to make a call on such a story`s factuality.

take it easy folks.

[jinx]

Well now, IMHO this is not all paranoia, but a fact of life to deal with at some point. This method has been around since the 50's and works on the same principle as Telco's Fiber Optic Transmission facilities that now carry the bulk of America's communications, and all LD traffic. A very thorough and pratical spy method.
You may wish to read this article also and wonder how it was kept secret for so long.
KaZaa SPAMto me is a dirty word and I have 'badmouthed' it from the very inception on this forum and others, but didn't think even they would sink this low.

Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/20020402/tc_cn/stealt
h_p2p_network_hides_inside_kazaa)
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