Re: Tempest, come home!

Charles Kerr (cskerr@geocities.com)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:08:30 -0600


Well, fuck. Just goes to show I should catch up on my mail
before sending stuff like this out. The conversation aleady
going on here is a few orders of magnitude deeper and
more interesting than this blurb. Sorry for the noise--

>Pop Quiz! Which of these two paragraphs from
>http://www.news.com/Perspectives/Column/0,176,126,00.html
>is more disturbing:
>
> a) ``Two U.K. scientists recently wrote that a clever
> amateur armed with $100 in electronics can detect
> every word on a targeted PC monitor by
> "listening in" on leaked radiation.
>
> b) ``They should know. The Cambridge University
> dons developed the technique while working on
> a way for Microsoft to covertly monitor illegal
> software usage.
>