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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:04 ADT
William H. Geiger III (whgiii@invweb.net)
Wed, 18 Mar 98 06:12:21 -0500
In <v04010c00b1350e40d599@[192.187.167.52]>, on 03/18/98
at 12:09 AM, Dave Del Torto <ddt@pgp.com> said:
>I believe/hope this is the reference post on the Soft Tempest project at
>Cambridge.
>According to Ross A, it would seem that this Burgess fellow at the Post
>wrote a convenient story designed to shock. Troubling with bothersome
>things like accuracy is not conducive to making deadlines.
>The "Tempest fonts" sound pretty interesting. I can also see where
>radiating _public_ keys might be useful.
>There are some potential ethical questions, but only if the government
>gets hold of this stuff. Even then...
I see this as quite scary. Imagine a program that radiated out private
info, CC #'s, private PGP keys with passphrases, bank account access
codes. the possibilities are endless and the worse part covert.
Hmmmmm where is the phone number for the local copper distributor?? Time
to start building some Faraday cages....
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