Bill Stewart wrote:
At 09:39 AM 12/23/98 -0600, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Just curious, if a computer is connected to the electric power through a UPS, does that reduce emissions leaked into the electrical system?:wq
It should probably reduce them a bit, depending on your UPS design, but if you have to worry about people monitoring your electricity for contraband bits, you've got a whole raft of other things you'd better start taking care of, like disk encryption and
Very true. I thought about this too. The question that I ask is, how much $$ am I worth to whoever might want to snoop at me? And then I spend money/time (my time is freely convertible to money) accordingly.
offsite backups and signs on the door indicating that you will or will not shoot at police if they do or do not have warrants....
Well, I personally hate these signs, they are very unfriendly.
The converse is that if you've got an electrical filtering system as part of your TEMPEST protection, whether it's in your computer's power supply or separate or both, you tend to have really nice clean power feeding your computer, which is a Good Thing.
Hmmm, nice point. Now... Just curious, if I simply make my study into a faraday cage via use of fine (< 1/2 inch) chicken wire, and insulate my power system from the computer emenations, would that be enough? Chicken wire is not that expensive, and I think that I could make it look nice on walls. igor
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- Igor.