Re: TEMPEST - WIRED NEWSARTICLE

From "piLL" <pill@atomic3d.com>
Date Tue, 26 Oct 1999 17:54:23 -0700
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PC monitors are basically RF broadcast stations....

u just need a 'PC monitor RF tuner' and tune in to your neighbor's porn
surfing :)


----- Original Message -----
From: Rask <rask@plastique.org>
To: <hacktivism@tao.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: TEMPEST - WIRED NEWSARTICLE


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> It's probably easy to collect the information a monitor displays from
> radiation emissions... but about computer processes I don't really know...
> yeah. good subject for discussion. haven't been to jya.com this week;
maybe
> the original documents would make for an interesting reading.
>
>
> At 06:44 27.10.99 +0900, you wrote:
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> >Greetings,
> >
> >Not to repeat the entire article, point your browser to:
> >
> >http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32097,00.html
> >
> >Here is the 1st paragraph from one of everyone's favorite Wired Magazine
> >writer:
> >
> >TEMPEST Brewing for PC Privacy?
> >by Declan McCullagh
> >3:00 a.m. 26.Oct.99.PDT
> >WASHINGTON -- Plenty of people worry about their privacy online, but few
> >consider that someone may be eavesdropping on what they're typing --
> >through a wall or even across the street.
> >
> >It's something government snoops have been able to do for at least the
> >last decade, according to newly released documents from the US National
> >Security Agency. Spy agencies have dubbed the concept TEMPEST, a code
> >name for technologies used to intercept and decipher the electromagnetic
> >signals that all computers emit...
> >
> >For the rest of the article point your browser to Wired's site @:
> >
> >http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32097,00.html
> >
> >Any discussions about this article?
> >----
> >Tom Garner
> >email:  trgarner@yta.attmil.ne.jp, tom.garner@yokota.af.mil,
> >trgarner@hotmail.com
> >ICQ:  4580576
> >
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