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Lol. The name is an inside joke. "Tempest" is an NSA program for securing devices against data exfiltration using radio frequencies. It was also once a progr
by sandworm101 3y ago
Lol. The name is an inside joke. "Tempest" is an NSA program for securing devices against data exfiltration using radio frequencies. It was also once a program for spying on such devices. A "tempest-rated" device is one that doesn't emit EM waves that may transmit information.
This software could be used to exfiltrate data from an "air-gaped" PC to a receiver. I suspect someone involved with this had a national security background.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
- EarlKing 3y ago> I suspect someone involved with this had a national security background. ....or, like me, they were simply not asleep during the 1990s when everyone and their dog remotely involved in information security became aware of Tempest, particularly via the publication of articles like "A Few Things on Van Eck's Method of Eavesdroping(sic)" in Phrack issue 46 (published 20 Sept 1994).[1] [1] http://phrack.org/issues/46/3.html http://phrack.org/issues/46/3.html