Software House: Proposed California law would mandate smartphone kill switch

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		Proposed California law would mandate smartphone kill switch 12.19.2013 11:06 AM The bill, if passed, could effectively mean kill switches on phones sold across the US.

		Listen up: RSA keys snatched by recording CPU sounds with a phone 12.19.2013 4:11 PM The co-inventor of the RSA algorithm has designed a scarily ingenious way of deciphering the unique sounds a CPU makes as it crunches RSA-encrypted content to extract the keys.

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