Re: Question about 'TEMPEST'

["Paul H. Merrill" <PaulMerrill@acm.org>]

The details of TEMPEST are classified, but details of reduction of
emmissions are not.  After all, those little FCC notices on your
equipment these days are regarding emmissions.  'Tis all a matter of
degree.

PHM 

Brown, R Ken wrote:
> 
> 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