About Wim van Eck
Wim van Eck was an engineer.
Wim van Eck is a Dutch computer researcher who was the first to publish about the vulnerability of displays to electromagnetic eavesdropping in 1985, a technique later named after his pioneering research as Van Eck phreaking.
Life and education Van Eck was born in Zeist, Netherlands.
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