confusing TEMPEST with NEMA

No, I am certain they're TEMPEST cases; they're government security vendors, with names that include the word TEMPEST or Security or whatever, and their prices are huge. And when I said "I'd like to pay COD", they said "we only accept government purchase forms." I have a plain NEMA 19" rack with power and fans, it's quite different. Black Unicorn's post about the demise of cash is particularly true when dealing with vendors who want government POs :) The people at hacking cons who are selling TEMPEST cases are selling what I believe are the real thing acquired through a variety of methods, some legal, others perhaps not. Usually they contain crufty old PCs, but one guy had some really nice fully-enclosed TEMPEST-compliant racks. They had serious power filters at the bottom, massive fans, and shielded fan i/o. They were basically free (a few hundred dollars), but I couldn't motor freight them from the location to my home, since I didn't have anything but cash at the time. ObNonCrypto: Waiting until 10 days before fc98 to buy airline tickets when the cheap fare expired an hour ago was SO SO SO stupid. Like taking 4 c-notes and lighting them on fire. Oh well. -- Ryan Lackey rdl@mit.edu http://mit.edu/rdl/