[PD-ot] [PD] hardcore nerd question

[maex at firstfloor.org]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:52:30PM -0500, Chris McCormick wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 01:47:50PM +0000, Andy Farnell wrote:
> > In a sci-fi story I once read, an inventor creates a device that can listen
> > into the past by recovering long passed conversations from the thermal heat
> > in a building. 
> > 
> > The author has totally slipped my mind. Does anyone remember this story
> > and who wrote it?
> 
> I don't know the answer to that question but I do know that this sounds
> very similar to a real-world side band attack where you can determine
> someone's pin-number or password by statistical analysis of the thermal
> decay happening on each key where their fingers pressed after they have
> left.

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