Monday, November 8, 2010

Question - 562


Connect to an engineering concept?

Answer: Van Eck Phreaking - a way to spy on electronic displays by detecting their electromagnetic radiation, popularized by Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. mekie, Krithi, Divya Shankar, and Dinesh got it. Awesome crack.

4 comments:

mekie said...

Van Eck phreaking (electromagnetic signal eavesdropping) of a laptop LCD in Cryptonomicon

Anonymous said...

Electromagnetic Environmental Effects
Krithi

Divya Shankar said...

Van Eck Phreaking is the technology (from the visual)- eavesdropping into the contents CRT/LCD display by detecting electromagnetic emissions. This Van Eck phreaking device is critical part of the Cryptonomicon novel by N.Stephenson.
The pic of blackwater canyon is the emblem of E3 (electromagnetic environmental effects) team, may be this military agency's work is to reduce emission of such electromagnetic emanations that give away critical info by phreaking.

Dinesh said...

Van Eck phreaking - Cryptonomicon rules!!!