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Re: Can you clarify what is new about this result? 22 October 2008 15:02
I was at the U.S. Naval Research Lab in the '60s, when Tempest was
relatively new. I wasn't involved with it, but people who were, made
it clear (and presumably) unclassified, that they were reading (1)
displays, (2) keyboards and (3) printers. With the kind of
technology that lets Putin monitor his dog's location by satellite,
and others have virtually continuous communication with devices on
Mars and around outer planets, there certainly should be greatly
improved monitoring capabilities.
As a Linux enthusiast, I completely agree that getting information
and methods out of secret (or proprietary) reports and into the
public domain is a valuable service. I would be curious whether the
enormous variety of computer hardware requires a comparable
complexity in the decoding software. In the '60s there were only a
few keyboard designs. The appearance, layout and scan codes of a
keyboard are now standardized, but I would guess the chipsets they
connect to are different from many manufacturers.
Thanks very much for the response! ;)
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