[Wolves] Digital Radio (OFFTOPIC TV detectors)

David Goodwin david at openminds.co.uk
Thu Jun 24 11:59:08 BST 2004


> Does standby keep the crt warm and would that emit rf radiation that could
> be detected? Or does it still decode the signal just keeping the tube dark
> which might be detectable.
> 
> If you wanted to detect completly off sets you could use some sort of rfid
> device that uses the power of the received signal to broadcast a reply, but
> then if you knew what you were doing it might be possible to disable it and
> its pretty new tech so it wouldn't work on older tvs
> 
> I remember hearing that they could actually detect what channel you were
> watching so I suspect some sort of van Eck phreaking
> (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci550525,00.html) is
> used but that should only get TVs that are on.
> 

The next question is - can they detect LCD tellys?

David.



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