Physical security matters!

Here is an account of some interesting experiments in using very sensitive microphones, or voltage meters to crack RSA.

So from this, it would be perfectly possible to build a plug in device which stole anything, even anything encrypted with a key held in RAM, given long enough to listen.

Scary stuff.

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