GURPS Shadowrun

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by CousinX

Van Eck Phreaking is the practical (real-world) application of that: with the right equipment, you can actually read a monitor without having line of sight -- you do so by reading the EM state of each pixel on the monitor.

That's the "receiving" end ... now check out EMPs for the "transmitting." The difference between frying electronics with an overwhelming EMP and manipulating it via precisely controlled EM induction is the measure of control over the EM field.

Of course EM fields can have effects on electronics.

That doesn't mean that it's even possible to build a device that uses induction to perform precise remote manipulations of arbitrary devices. Without pure superscience that allows you to remotely generate arbitrary EM fields, and superscience scanners to analyze the target so you know what fields you want to induce.