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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