With a Can of Air, Hackers Can Steal Encrypted Data From Laptops

This short article kind of fascinating. I'm wondering how long it will take for this trick to make its way into a movie.

All it takes is a can of air and some know-how to unlock the contents of a laptop computer’s memory, even if the data were sealed with encrypted techniques. That’s the argument made by researchers at Princeton University in a paper released this week on the Web site of the university’s Center for Information Technology Policy.

Wired Campus: With a Can of Air, Hackers Can Steal Encrypted Data From Laptops - Chronicle.com