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We demonstrated this in 2016 at PennApps and won the hackathon. The demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAM9c3eBFyE

Code: https://github.com/fyquah/ramear

Press: https://technical.ly/software-development/scary-hardware-hac...

The most challenging part was to demonstrate it live on stage, typing on the airgapped desktop and decoding the signals on the laptop with the antena next to it. I found an image still surviving from the stage: https://dailytrojan.com/2016/01/26/my-weekend-at-pennapps/ I may have a video of the demo on the stage as well...

Our work was based on the same author Mordechai Guri's earlier work 5 months prior, referenced on GitHub (USENIX Security 15, pp. 849-864). Thank you sir, this hack was a highlight of my student years.

OTOH, it's chilling me to this day. The implications of this attack vector is only getting scarier. Also, apparently the capability ceiling: 1Kb/s and a greater distance is demonstrated here compared to 11 years ago.

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