Bare fibers
Rabid Wombat
wombat at mcfeely.bsfs.org
Tue Jul 23 14:58:16 PDT 1996
>
> Doesn't that make it vulnerable (detectable) to Tempest attacks?
>
> Harka
> ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR]
>
No.
Transmitting light via fiber doesn't emit EM.
Anyway, the original post, as I recall, was about keeping sensitive data
on a second hard drive, connected via (very thin, therefore harder to
notice) fiber. Tempest monitoring was not a factor.
-r.w.
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