Keys Leaking Through the Air At RSA 85
NumberField writes "The RSA Conference is underway in San Francisco. A theme among the opening speakers is that the attackers are winning, and even well-funded organizations like NASDAQ can't secure their networks reliably. The show floor is lively, but dominated by the typical firewalls and 'compliance solutions.' One interesting exception is a scary side-channel analysis demo in the Cryptography Research booth using GNU Radio to capture secret keys from various smartphones from about 10 feet away. (The method is related to early computer music using AM radio interference.)"
Re:why on earth... (Score:4, Interesting)
Because all trade networks connect to each other now, and the internet is the cheapest way than building dedicated hardlinks to innerconnect to all stock exchanges. I doubt that any exchange would be willing to drop billions to build trans-atlantic/pacific data exchanges, unless something catastrophic happened. Plus it creates central points of weakness.
The internet 'routes around damage'.