Hackers can pick up signals from HDMI cables and view other people’s computer screens
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Hackers could eavesdrop on electromagnetic waves leaking through the cable between a monitor and a computer and, with the help of artificial intelligence, decipher what’s displayed on the screen. While such attacks probably happen in the real world, the researchers say, average computer users need hardly worry.
The connection between the computer and the screen used to be entirely analog, but is now increasingly digital, with data being sent in binary over a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) cable. At any time…
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