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A good friend of mine had the chance to see such a van while working for the French Navy. The operator even showed him a (somewhat blurry) real-time view of my
by wazoox 6y ago
A good friend of mine had the chance to see such a van while working for the French Navy. The operator even showed him a (somewhat blurry) real-time view of my friend's Mac desktop in the building next door... (This happened in the early 90s in Toulon arsenal).
- IshKebab 6y agoThat sounds like Tempest, and I somehow doubt that they actually showed him that.
- wazoox 6y agoWhy not? They didn't explain how it works. And he was an officer at the time.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoIt's not that Tempest was ever a secret, There was advertising for countermeasures (metal screens for Windows, just like you have in your microwave) in the mid 1980s.
- IshKebab 6y agoSpy satellites aren't a secret either but it was big news when Trump revealed their resolution capability.