It has been a while since Tempest has come up here. If you haven't heard Joel McNamara's is closing his unique web site on TEMPEST in October, 2011. An archival pdf is available until then: http://eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html A lot secret and open research is still underway on compromising emanations and inadvertent signals of humand innards, outwards and behavior -- electonic, acoustic, visual, odor, taste, touch, multi-sensory, extrasensory, paranormal, stride, eye blink, arm swing, bodily excretions, crowding, solitude, sleep, grammar, syntax, singing, math and coding skill, down the line of reading what you don't want read without getting bitcoins in return. Much of Tempest discussion focuses on electronic emanations but are there reports on non-electronic signal capture? The report recently on big cavity resonators in Britain built before radar to pick-up acoustics of distant aircraft reminds of the non-electronic versions of Tempest popularized by the KGB's planting a device in the US Embassy residence in Moscow. Passive bugs are not the question. Are dumb-looking objects still being covertly planted in secure locations to transmit signals to the outside at imperceptible wave lengths or stego-ed in the perceptible? Bypassing cutting-edge Tempest countermeasures which so enthrall technical surveillance inspectors blinded by e-gadgetry. Are live skulls cavity resonators beyond pushing voice? Lot of cavities in most places where people go for privacy.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:07 AM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
It has been a while since Tempest has come up here... Bypassing cutting-edge Tempest countermeasures which so enthrall technical surveillance inspectors blinded by e-gadgetry.
biological and natural systems seem to be quite effective against / compared to the most advanced sensors. i have horse pastures surrounding my abode; equines naturally attuned to taking shifts watching over the herd. last week went out to investigate a particular mare with focused attention beyond the property, over the fence, in deep brush. it was a stray cat, sitting silent in the 2am dark... i like to call this "biological amplification" and it beats even the best of the Flir line. a replenishing resource that costs me about $240 a month for the group. (cameras, infrared, acoustics, none have come close to the effectiveness of just watching the pones watch my perimeter. :)
Indeed, long before breast fixation was sexualized we knew exactly where to find teat. The way dogs, and perhaps other animals, store smells as humans do sights to recall a path of travel, and find their way home after being transported miles by vehicle elsewhere. Animals with acute hearing do the same tracking and pathfinding. Humans have gradually reduced reliance upon all there senses to favor sight, aided by text and drawings, and those supplanted by computers and other electronic gadgets with visual displays. Magic, incantation, riots, hypnosis and paranormal work in ways carefully studied by behaviorists aiming to manipulate humans. Athletes, dancers, actors, musicians and "native" trackers have the good sense to gather and retrieve muscle movement, natural signs and sound many of us have let wither in over-educated belief that sight and reason and logic should be dominant. The disembodied electronic gadgetry world has distanced humans evern further into terrible mistakes, drone genocide based on limited electronic data only the most recent -- and more of that mini-WMD on the way. Presumably tiny drones will be used for BW and CW on food sources and disease, to complement the audio-terror they now cause like the whistling bombs of WW2. Back to Tempest in its manifold iterations beyond EM. Leakage of signals, comms, concepts, secrets and much more via the imperceptible to vain technologists trained to read only a tiny smidgen of the sensory spectrum. What is being done with those we are too smart-bombed to understand? Probably one answer to that is why OBL could not be found for a decade by the greatest technolgical nation ever invented by the blind, deaf and mute. This is not to exclude the possibility that OBL assassination is a fiction to declare victory by technical means and methods of media manipulation. At 05:35 PM 6/20/2011 -0700, you wrote:
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:07 AM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
It has been a while since Tempest has come up here... Bypassing cutting-edge Tempest countermeasures which so enthrall technical surveillance inspectors blinded by e-gadgetry.
biological and natural systems seem to be quite effective against / compared to the most advanced sensors.
i have horse pastures surrounding my abode; equines naturally attuned to taking shifts watching over the herd. last week went out to investigate a particular mare with focused attention beyond the property, over the fence, in deep brush.
it was a stray cat, sitting silent in the 2am dark... i like to call this "biological amplification" and it beats even the best of the Flir line.
a replenishing resource that costs me about $240 a month for the group.
(cameras, infrared, acoustics, none have come close to the effectiveness of just watching the pones watch my perimeter. :)
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