AI giving everyone the three letter agency tools now
your HDMI cable can leak what’s on your screen watch the laptop on the left. it reconstructs the video playing on the monitor beside it from radio signals leaking out of the HDMI connection this is TempestSDR. an antenna picks up the leakage, a HackRF radio captures it, and software turns it back into an image researchers took this further with Deep-TEMPEST, using AI to make recovered images and text easier to read. this clip shows the original technique quality depends on shielding, distance and interference. the picture is imperfect, but recognizable content still gets through a wired connection can still leave a wireless trace
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HDMI TEMPEST demos like TempestSDR recover distorted images only in controlled close-range setups often using unshielded or poorly shielded cables; standard consumer HDMI connections and distances prevent practical screen leakage or remote recovery. rtl-sdr.com/easvesdropping… arxiv.org/pdf/2407.09717 techradar.com/computing/cybe… kaspersky.com/blog/deep-temp…

Nov 9, 2026 · 5:14 AM UTC

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Imagine what it’s giving three letter agencies
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Decentral Intelligence Agency
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i was so mad when they didn’t teach me about the actual cool stuff in college
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I mean if you're close enough to capture that, you're close enough to the monitor itself. Now do that with fiber optics and i'm sold
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This exists way before AI
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This is only dangerous and concerning if you are unable to break your dependable on the digital. Spyware is completely harmless when you have no ware worthing spying on. Anything worth hiding should never be accessible by a screen. Snowden taught us that over a decade ago guys.
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Tempest has been a thing for a very long time. This isn’t new.
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These are all tools they discarded because they were useless, at best you can get the signal from a few feet away assuming there are no other signals mixed in. The avg spying toy device you can get on Amazon is probably useful than whatever is in the video lol
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We have had that tool for decades Go to Youtube and search "Your NES was a TV transmitter" and "Tempest IBM TPC" this was already public knowledge by the 80's
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Yeah this is emitting in the gigahertz range. Practical distance of a few feet.
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They don’t even need this shit lol they have way better tools
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Mas com um atraso de duas décadas
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VGA chads assemble
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niggas freaking out at van eck phreaking like it's not defeated by basic cable shielding
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他们是什么伏地魔之类的吗?
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