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Re: Laptops and TEMPEST
Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> Lucky Green wrote:
> > If you really need to keep your information processing
> > "private", then you can either isolate yourself inside
> > a double-shielded room of solid copper; power everything
> > with batteries; have no wires leading out of that room;
> > make damned sure the door has the nice secure wiping strips
> > to complete the shield when you close it -- or move your
> > information processor into the middle of a whole bunch of
> > the same or worse RF/RFI/EMI emitters, and just _maybe_
> > your data will get lost or become inaccessible because
> > of the overload of the detection equipment by much larger
> > interference fields. Or use paper, pencil, and one-time pads
> > and burn everything that's done "in the clear" and really
> > scrunch the ashes into dust.
> > [Again, I am not the author of the above post.]
> An interesting use of one time pads -- to keep one's own secrets.
> And where to keep the pads themselves?
I apologize sincerely for mentioning this, but in reference to "where
to keep the pads", maybe that's why Don Wood (when he was at NSA)
got into doing what he does.