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SS&S response to TEMPEST inf0 request
About 30 minutes after I got off the phone requesting
product information and related materials, I recieved a
voice mail message from Ray Helsop of SS&S. When I
returned his call, he informed me that the address that I
gave looked like a residential address (Hmmm), and that they
usually don't send information to private homes, apts,
bird-baths, e.t.c.
He then informed me that he had called my employer
(the Junior Proletarian Laboratory), and varified my name in
the directory, and the department that I worked in; and that
since I work for a Federal Research Facility (DoD sinkhole)
everything was `ok'.
He then proceded to tell me about foreigners calling the
company requesting TEMPEST information, and other "spooky"
callers, and that it was now allright to send the
product information to my home.
After I told him my interests in the hardware, he ran down
a list of avilable equipment, and asked about numbers,
requirements, and said he'd send it right out to me.
I hate to be presumptuous... but I think an "I'm trying to
protect my personal computer from prying eyes" would fall on
very deaf ears at SS&S, and I'll leave it at that. ;-)
JPW