From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Fri Oct 29 1999 - 09:46:50 MDT
Larry Klaes wrote:
> >
> >Careful what you type ...
> >
> >http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/1999/10/27/tempest1027_01.h
> >tml?s=emil
Several points here, starting with netiquette-
1) A bunch of headers on a forwarded message are not interesting.
2) Cryptic comments are not informative.
3) Tempest is really not news- I worked on making the Otrona Attache
portable computer Tempest compatible back in *1980*. The real focus on
most Tempest products is to make military and spook computers immune to
spying, not to use the technique in an active sense.
Granted, access to Tempest info has dried up over time- see
http://www.tempest-inc.com/services.htm for a really bad example of clumsy
secrecy (and a really st00pid website). It does concern me that
consultants do training with DOD approval only.
The problem with Tempest isn't so much government snooping, but industrial
espionage- I've never seen any corporate attention to Tempest compliance,
and with almost every executive in the world using an unshielded computer,
the elint possibilites are immense...
-- Doug Jones Rocket Plumber, XCOR Aerospace http://www.xcor-aerospace.com
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