Dan Geer wrote:
>I would place a bet that only traffic analysis will remain an
>area of sustainable lead, that traffic analysis is the only
>area where commercial interests will not naturally marshall
>the resources to threaten the lead of the national agencies.
This may well be. However, a writer on UK Crypto pointed
out a couple of days ago that Tempest effects in communications
systems were observed and countered as early as 1884. That's
1884, a mere 116 years ago. And some 32 years before the
Yardley and his Black Chamber reportedly invented it --
when it appears that by then several nations knew about
the threat and kept mum, and kept winning battles over
those who didn't know what they thought they knew.
There's a good chance that Yardley was briefed by the British
during his WW1 visit and the Chamber developed a leak --
Yardley, who needed the money after his unit was downsized.
Will downsizing NSA produce leaks of amazing technology?
Is it already dribbling into markets, first other federal agencies,
then LEAs, then PIs, then corp-sec, then startups, then
a scandal of congressional interest, then we get it, finally,
with a Skipjack, Capstone, CE, Echelon declass dribbledown.
While the edge stuff eats your liver and brainstem cell by jigger.
