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Radio Signals to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Networks

Hello everyone,
I read some news websites daily, and one of them is The Hacker News. Honestly, I don't understand most of it. Those articles are beyond my knowledge; I try to Google and learn as much as I can. But still, I wouldn't dare to say that I understand them completely. Anyway, I read this article and I was baffled. The article is about Dr. Mordechai Guri, the head of the Offensive Cyber Research Lab in the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, who found a way to steal files from an air-gapped network by sending data to another computer. An air-gapped network is a computer network that has no wireless or wired connections to external networks or devices, and that's what makes it so fascinating. It works by sending radio signals to obtain sensitive information, which can be decoded into binary data. The computer on the air-gapped network still needs to be compromised before this kind of attack is possible. But still, it's just crazy that this kind of attack is even possible.