In a sci-fi story I once read, an inventor creates a device that can listen into the past by recovering long passed conversations from the thermal heat in a building.
The author has totally slipped my mind. Does anyone remember this story and who wrote it?
Cheers,
Andy
# I hardly remember a story of Isaac Asimov in which he says that if such a device exists there can not be any privacy. Every conversation could be listened to by other one. But I think Asimov's device is related to visuals too, but the idea is similar... -ugur-
On Dec 11, 2007 3:47 PM, Andy Farnell padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk wrote:
In a sci-fi story I once read, an inventor creates a device that can listen into the past by recovering long passed conversations from the thermal heat in a building.
The author has totally slipped my mind. Does anyone remember this story and who wrote it?
Cheers,
Andy
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Yep, that's nailed it Ugur. It was "The Dead Past" in Earth is room enough. I've conflated it with something else more recent. Cheers for that.
I was looking for ideas dealing with entropy vs radiation, stuff lost to the noise floor vs stuff that loses power but propagates to eternity.
Interesting thing about the keyboard hack Chris, would one or two keypresses really leave a measurable signature or is this just fanciful Mission Impossible/James Bond stuff?
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:23:55 +0200 "U__ur Güney" ugurguney@gmail.com wrote:
# I hardly remember a story of Isaac Asimov in which he says that if such a device exists there can not be any privacy. Every conversation could be listened to by other one. But I think Asimov's device is related to visuals too, but the idea is similar... -ugur-
On Dec 11, 2007 3:47 PM, Andy Farnell padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk wrote:
In a sci-fi story I once read, an inventor creates a device that can listen into the past by recovering long passed conversations from the thermal heat in a building.
The author has totally slipped my mind. Does anyone remember this story and who wrote it?
Cheers,
Andy
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Hallo, Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote:
Interesting thing about the keyboard hack Chris, would one or two keypresses really leave a measurable signature or is this just fanciful Mission Impossible/James Bond stuff?
It's real: I saw this on TV in "Bionic Woman" recently, where the Bionic Woman with her cybernetically enhanced view managed to analyze which keys on an access control keypad had the most fingerprints.
Then she just guessed the correct order of the numbers and went in. ;)
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
It's real: I saw this on TV in "Bionic Woman" recently, where the Bionic Woman with her cybernetically enhanced view managed to analyze which keys on an access control keypad had the most fingerprints.
It's real: kids learn this with just 12 and spray chalk on the key pad (since most people have not been enhanced with 12 YET).
What's that? Like spray on invisible glue/varnish?
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:15:54 +0100 Olivier Heinry olivier.heinry@manga-burgah.net wrote:
It's real: I saw this on TV in "Bionic Woman" recently, where the Bionic Woman with her cybernetically enhanced view managed to analyze which keys on an access control keypad had the most fingerprints.
It's real: kids learn this with just 12 and spray chalk on the key pad (since most people have not been enhanced with 12 YET).
Le mardi 11 décembre 2007 à 23:03 +0000, Andy Farnell a écrit :
What's that? Like spray on invisible glue/varnish?
Simpler: chalk from school black board, most people wont ever notice, if they do, they just think some lazy craftsman that renovated a flat upstairs hasnt tidy the place. Most codes are 4 digit long, which a brute force attack will solve quite fast.
(i dont think spray was the right word, i ment something like "appliquer", to apply ?)
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:15:54 +0100 Olivier Heinry olivier.heinry@manga-burgah.net wrote:
It's real: I saw this on TV in "Bionic Woman" recently, where the Bionic Woman with her cybernetically enhanced view managed to analyze which keys on an access control keypad had the most fingerprints.
It's real: kids learn this with just 12 and spray chalk on the key pad (since most people have not been enhanced with 12 YET).
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:47:06 +0100 Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:
Hallo, Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote:
Interesting thing about the keyboard hack Chris, would one or two keypresses really leave a measurable signature or is this just fanciful Mission Impossible/James Bond stuff?
It's real: I saw this on TV in "Bionic Woman" recently, where the Bionic Woman with her cybernetically enhanced view managed to analyze which keys on an access control keypad had the most fingerprints.
Then she just guessed the correct order of the numbers and went in. ;)
They don't need bionics for that Frank, she uses some kind of shoe shop Jedi mind trick that makes _me_ press the buttons.
Ciao
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Hallo, Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote:
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:47:06 +0100 Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:
Hallo, Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote:
Interesting thing about the keyboard hack Chris, would one or two keypresses really leave a measurable signature or is this just fanciful Mission Impossible/James Bond stuff?
It's real: I saw this on TV in "Bionic Woman" recently, where the Bionic Woman with her cybernetically enhanced view managed to analyze which keys on an access control keypad had the most fingerprints.
Then she just guessed the correct order of the numbers and went in. ;)
They don't need bionics for that Frank, she uses some kind of shoe shop Jedi mind trick that makes _me_ press the buttons.
Ah. And I thought, only the Fembots would do that.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
I as well recall something similar, but I don't recall where, the author, or even if it was a story or just a thought experiment; but I do recall someone making the claim that with the right listening equipment, in the right location, he could record Jesus' last moments on the cross. Makes me think of Contact, where the "others" received that one Hitler speech after 50 or 60 years.
-Chuckk
On Dec 11, 2007 3:47 PM, Andy Farnell padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk wrote:
In a sci-fi story I once read, an inventor creates a device that can listen into the past by recovering long passed conversations from the thermal heat in a building.
The author has totally slipped my mind. Does anyone remember this story and who wrote it?
Cheers,
Andy
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