Tombstone

Io9 has a story that Mr. Stephenson has just agreed to a new deal that comes with a significant sum of money and here is the but it is classified as a Thriller.  Is that a big deal to you?  I am still not sure if that means that the present age is creepy enough that there is more fiction and less science or it is going to be more a departure from past works and move in a new direction…I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

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While not Van Eck Phreaking, being able to eavesdrop on what is being typed in a different room by monitoring the common ground wire of the electic outlet is still cool. The BBC’s article Snooping through the power socket outlines the attack.

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