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From: vizard@dartvax.UUCP (Todd Krein)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Easy money
Message-ID: <4867@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Jul-86 22:34:48 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 20 22:34:48 1986
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> This one isn't for the private individual out to make a few extra bucks;
> it's for the owner of a small/mid-sized firm which either imports or produces
> PC compatibles and is looking for some little known niche in the market
> to investigate.  Have you ever heard the term "TEMPEST"?  A
> "tempestized" computer (or device of any sort) is one which has been
> sealed off, either electronically or by actually being encased in steel
> or cast aluminum, from any possibility of it "leaking" radio-frequency
> noise which could be picked up by some Russki or Haitian or Polish spy
> out in the parking lot with a device made with $20 worth of radio
> shack parts (don't laugh TOO hard... it has actually been done) which
> lets him see what is going on on the computer in question, even though
> it's inside a building.
> 
> 
> Anyone who got into this game with Taiwanese generic stuff and only
> charged double the going rates for this kind of equipment would be loved
> by God, his banker, AND the federal government.

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Just a question... Have YOU ever tried to make anything TEMPEST class?
It's a hell of lot harder than just a new enclosure, having tried to
do something similar, and having talked w/ people who do it for a living.

		Todd Krein
		vizard @ dartvax