Jamming against Van Eck phreaking
David Matthew Mooney wrote 04/17/2021 at 14:50 • 1 pointHas this been done? Please provide link to solution or discussion of why attempted solutions have failed.
My thought was: use 2 identical laptops stacked up, the bottom one showing the jamming pattern and the top one showing the cleartext. Since the laptops are so close physically, their respective scan oscillators should phase lock spontaneously like Huygen's clocks, making the remote separation of the jamming signal from the cleartext impossible.
A more aggressive approach would be: find that phreak and report him/her. Put together something as close to a Van Eck rig as the law allows, connect the output to your possibly eavesdropped computer (by a summing point), then scan your log periodic antenna across the countryside. If you get a feedback oscillation at some heading, you've found your phreak. Now you just need the range. Triangulation? Speed-of-light calculation? The latter might be just the speed of light divided by the feedback oscillation frequency divided by a constant = 2 or larger. What can we do to ensure that the frequency reflects the system time delay, as opposed to the values of inductances and capacitances?
Is no privacy for anyone better than inequalities in privacy (i.e., duck blinds)? Do good EMI shields make good neighbors?
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I assume the optical outputs would likewise be synchronous and thus impossible to disentangle remotely. How about this: keep the 2 screens at the same angle but leave 2" of horizontal space between, and put a reflective coating on the back of the screen of the top laptop, to get lots of light from the bottom laptop bouncing around the room.
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Do not use LCD at all? Use headphones and speech synthesis? Air pressure side-channels are easy to block.
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