A Cambridge University security researcher has demonstrated the ability to read text and capture images from flat-screen displays…through as many as three intervening walls. Well, that’s unnerving.
Tag: espionage
Your pocket change isn’t spying on you after all
Turns out that report about tiny transmitters in Canadian coins wasn’t true. Guess I can take the tinfoil out of my pockets now and put it back on my head where it belongs.
From now on, view your pockets with suspicion:
U.S. Warns About Canadian Spy Coins, says the headline, and the gist is: In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside. The government said the mysterious coins were …