[Cointelegraph article] New Device Steals Encrypted Bitcoin Keys in Mid-Air

Good thing my house is in a faraday cage, in a really small town with not a lot of bitcoin users to hack.

New Device Steals Encrypted Bitcoin Keys in Mid-Air


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[4 Points] KimJongUntouchable:

The hacking device has an antenna that reads electromagnetic waves from any computer device within 19 inches

And such attacks in this vein have existed before,. For example, in 2013 a paper was published detailing acoustic cryptanalysis. One of the authors was Adi Shamir, one of the creators of the RSA cypto-system. The acoustic cryptanalysis attack could steal keys from 4 meters away.