Next Room’s Eavesdropping Device Is Better Than A Drinking Glass

Sean Fallon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Next Room is kind of like a mash-up between a stethoscope, MP3 player and an old-fashioned drinking glass. According to the product page, you can hear what is being said through wooden walls, doors, windows and even steel plates.

It features an internal sound amplifier, a 3.5mm jack for headphones and a USB port for recharging. Nice, but if you really want to take this whole scumbaggy espionage thing to another level, you go with the SIM card spy ear. [Chinagrabber via 7Gadgets via OhGizmo]

Electromagnetic Scanners Can Detect What You’re Typing Right Now

John Mahoney — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:40:00 +0000

It’s obvious to assume that your henpecking on a wireless keyboard could be intercepted by a RF-snooping ne’er-do-well, but what about your wired or laptop keyboard–that should be safe, right? Nope. Researchers at Lausanne, Switzerland’s Security and Cryptography Laboratory (part of the EPFL school) have demonstrated here that 12 different keyboards, bought from 2001 until now, can be eavesdropped upon by monitoring their electromagnetic signatures–wirelessly, from up to 65 feet away, through walls.

. This second video demonstrates the second set of their experiments. The researchers devised four separate methods for EM eavesdropping, which will be detailed in specifics in a paper to be released after peer review. The method for intercepting signals involves detecting the full spectrum of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a keyboard (which are unshielded to keep costs and form factors down), and analysing the specific change in signal over a variety of wavelengths for each key press. All the more reason to work/live in a giant Farraday cage. LASEC/EPFL]

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Next Room’s Eavesdropping Device Is Better Than A Drinking Glass

Electromagnetic Scanners Can Detect What You’re Typing Right Now