Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-15 Thread John Young
There's a good possibility that Saddam was traced by Tempest sensing, airborne or mundane. The technology is far more sensitive than a decade ago. And with a lot of snooping technology kept obscure by tales of HUMINT, finks, lost laptops and black bag jobs. For less sensitive compromising

Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-15 Thread Anonymous Sender
While I agree with much of what you say I don't think it's likely that any kind of advanced SIGINT operation was what brought him down. The most important thing to have is intelligence from humans. From insiders. This is partly the problem with the intelligence agencies today. They

Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-15 Thread Tim May
On Dec 14, 2003, at 8:33 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: TEMPEST shielding is fairly esoteric (at least for non-EM-specialists) field. But potentially could be made easier by simplifying the problem. If we won't want to shield the user interface (eg. we want just a cryptographic processor), we may put

Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-15 Thread Thomas Shaddack
TEMPEST shielding is fairly esoteric (at least for non-EM-specialists) field. But potentially could be made easier by simplifying the problem. If we won't want to shield the user interface (eg. we want just a cryptographic processor), we may put the device into a solid metal case without holes,

Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-15 Thread John Young
There's a good possibility that Saddam was traced by Tempest sensing, airborne or mundane. The technology is far more sensitive than a decade ago. And with a lot of snooping technology kept obscure by tales of HUMINT, finks, lost laptops and black bag jobs. For less sensitive compromising

Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-15 Thread Anonymous Sender
While I agree with much of what you say I don't think it's likely that any kind of advanced SIGINT operation was what brought him down. The most important thing to have is intelligence from humans. From insiders. This is partly the problem with the intelligence agencies today. They

Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas Shaddack
TEMPEST shielding is fairly esoteric (at least for non-EM-specialists) field. But potentially could be made easier by simplifying the problem. If we won't want to shield the user interface (eg. we want just a cryptographic processor), we may put the device into a solid metal case without holes,

Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-14 Thread Tim May
On Dec 14, 2003, at 8:33 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: TEMPEST shielding is fairly esoteric (at least for non-EM-specialists) field. But potentially could be made easier by simplifying the problem. If we won't want to shield the user interface (eg. we want just a cryptographic processor), we may put