Question about 'TEMPEST'
Brown, R Ken
brownrk1 at texaco.com
Wed Dec 23 06:17:55 PST 1998
Tim May wrote:
> The full TEMPEST specs are more or less classified, as might
> be expected. (Because one does not lightly tell one's enemies
> what one is measuring for.)
> Contrary to popular rumor, it is not "illegal" to shield
> computers, to "use TEMPEST methods," as it were.
Rather hard to see how it could be, given that the details are supposed to
be secret! If all of a sudden you got arrested for wrapping wet towels
around screens that would be a Big Clue....
(of course that assumes you live in a country where you get told what you;ve
been arrested for. Hmmmm....)
Ken
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