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Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Wed, 18 Mar 1998 15:14:37 +0000
William H. Geiger III wrote:
>
> 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.
Surely the point is that your system already does this? They've just
found a way to control it more accurately (both to suppress and to
choose what it radiates). If people want to plant software on you that
gives away such information, surely there are easier ways than doing it
such that you also have to park an expensive detector van outside!
> Hmmmmm where is the phone number for the local copper distributor?? Time
> to start building some Faraday cages....
Don't forget to snip that important information leak: your Internet
connection...
Cheers,
Ben.
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:05 ADT