I dunno...I'm thinking that optical tempest is probably bullshit 99% of

At 03:15 PM 7/17/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: the

time, but what do I know?

There was an article on optical tempest based on reading modem-LEDs, which are sometimes modulated with the data stream. For Mhz rates it works.

But I still don't believe that specular reflection of smallish type from a monitor will have anything that is recoverable. Of course, this is going to be dependent on the quality of the wall material, but for most not-so-even plaster/drywall painted surfaces, I just can't believe the appopriate spacial frequencies of the image are not scattered after that kind of reflection.

The conspiracy theorist is telling me there's some reason they floated

The idea of reading the *matte* reflection of the CRT beam is possible. But its not *spatial* frequency, its using intensity vs. time. At any one instant you have a single 1-D measurement. This exploits the fact, as stated, that the phosphor is brightest under the (scanning) beam. There is no spatial info present. You simply need a sensitive (contrast is low) and fast (raster rate) optical measurement. the

optical tempest story, though I can't quite figure out what that reason

is...

Its the Windowshade division of the Anti-Illuminati ---- Irony: Jewish Zealots were famous for offing (Jewish) Roman collaborators. 100 generations later, Arabic Zealots whack (Arabic) ZionistCrusader collaborators. "Pro-American Mayor, Son Killed in Iraq" ---- Of course Iraq isn't another Vietnam. They don't know how to make good pho hoa.