[Cryptography] Gaslighting ~= power droop == side channel attack

[Henry Baker]

At 02:05 PM 12/1/2016, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>There was a time when people would have been ashamed for it to be known
>they were buying, or selling, sex toys for example, and businesses would
>have been boycotted etc; now they're on sale and recommended as
>christmas gifts at Walmart.  Lack of privacy, or lack of caring about
>privacy, has revealed how utterly normal this is, and most people just
>don't care about it anymore because normal means boring.

As usual, the problem isn't with "most people", but with govts.

E.g., so long as genealogy records (often kept by various religious
groups) were used only within families, there wasn't any problem.

But when people start getting rounded up and murdered based on
information stored in these records, "shame" became the least of
their worries.

In certain countries, the knowledge (or lack thereof) of certain
religious texts will get you murdered, as will the preference
for certain colors of Teletubbies.

Due to the power "optimization" in modern LED TV sets, you can
now correlate to near certainty which channel is being watched
based solely on power consumption data.  That data is enough
to get you murdered in quite a few countries around the world
today; countries that show up on every cybersecurity firm's
"best customer" list.

http://www.tij.co.jp/jp/lit/an/slva474/slva474.pdf

"High Efficiency AC-DC TV Power Solutions: Proposing an
Intelligent LED Backlight Driving Scheme.  Application Report
SLVA74-July 2011"

Thanks to the change in DOJ's Rule 41 yesterday, those same data
are now accessible to the FBI for everyone on Earth, and the FBI
can use these same data to put you in prison for 20 years.

And -- thanks to the mass gathering of these data by utility
companies -- the FBI only needs to hit a few keys on their
computers to access all of this information.

If "normal, boring" means "the state of most people", then
"normal, boring" can also be "dead", since most people are
now dead, and dead is about as boring as your can get.