For one of our courses (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0910/R08/) we had to do a presentation on one topic. So I did something in braking Smartcard's security (yes, those cards you use to take money out of an ATM or get Pay-TV services).
It was really fun when I got to implement a small crypto algorithm and also I got two different ways of hacking it.
Something also huge (again, for me...) is the presentation of our teacher on eavesdropping attacks. He can practically see ANYTHING is going on your monitor (laptop, LCD, whatever). He is able to see the contents of a monitor even 3 walls away, which means he can see anything you see !
3 comments:
Omar, don't tell us stuff like that! We'll never be able to use an ATM or our computer with peace again!
Actually the guy that invented one of the techniques is from California :)
I'm pretty sure there are much more things like that in the US than in Europe.
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