OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

[Arthur Dent]

> On 05/01/2012 05:59 PM, stan wrote:
>> The main question, though; is Fedora vulnerable to this sort of
>> attack?  It sounds like it is a combination of hardware and software
>> usage patterns that create the vulnerability, so do things like
>> randomized heap make this impossible?
>
>    To be completely save one has to completely cover their computer,
> internet cable, modem,router, the electrical  wires which the
>    computer is connected too, in tin foil.l so there is no
> electromagnetic leak of any sort and install OpenBSD.

Well that, and of course you need to wear a similar tin foil hat on your
head while using the computer because, as everyone knows, your brainwave
patterns are vulnerable to the scanning devices that all Western
intelligence agencies use routinely...