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by westurner 559 days ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37099515 :

> If quantum information is never destroyed – and classical information is quantum information without the complex term i – perhaps our [RAM] states are already preserved in the universe; like reflections in water droplets in the quantum foam

According to the "Air gap malware" Wikipedia article's description of GSMem, the x86 RAM bus can be used as a low power 3G antenna. And, HDMI is an antenna, and, Ungrounded computers leak emanations to the ungrounded microphone port on the soundcard.

Air gap malware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-gap_malware

Stochastic forensics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_forensics

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Back in the day, we called that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking