Re: TEMPEST - WIRED NEWSARTICLE

["Me Uh, K." <pram512@yahoo.com>]

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my best guess is that in order for this to work, you
need to actually block ALL electrical emisions from
the source - I would assume that you need x-ray
sheilding to effectivly protect your computers.  But
I'm just talking - I don't really know.

This made the rounds on bugtraq a few months back -
someone posted a link to a really excellent article. 
(if anyone's curious enough to do the footwork)  much
more in depth than the Wired one.

-mia k.  (who IS paranoid, because they ARE after her)

--- Victor Karyo <vkaryo@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I wish I could site a URL, but I've also read that
> receiving monitor 
> emissions is not hard (for the NSA); see Information
> Warfare and Security by 
> Dorothy Denning of Georgetown Univ.
> 
> I understand protecting against this would require
> lead, but what about just 
> alumimun foil on the windows or a steel mesh (like
> in Enemy of the State).  
> Any chance these would protect against this?
> 
> 
> 
> >
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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
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