AI can reveal what’s on your screen via signals leaking from cables
Hackers could view someone’s computer screen by picking up signals from the HDMI cable
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Hackers can intercept electromagnetic radiation leaking from the cable between your monitor and computer and decode what you are seeing on screen with the help of artificial intelligence. Such attacks are probably taking place in the real world, says the team behind the work, but ordinary computer users have little to worry about.
The connection between computers and screens used to be entirely analogue, but today they tend to be digital and transmit data in binary along a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) cable. Whenever…
