From: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1998-03-03 19:38:51 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:38:51 -0800 (PST)
From: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:38:51 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Radio Frequency Warfare Hearing
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At 12:56 PM 3/2/98 -0800, bill.stewart@pobox.com wrote:
>At 08:17 AM 2/28/98 -0500, John Young wrote:
>>We offer the lengthy prepared testimony at the Joint
>>Economic Committee hearing February 25 on "Radio Frequency
>>Weapons and Proliferation: Potential Impact on the Economy."
>> http://jya.com/rfw-jec.htm (112K)
>
>John! You can't do that! That's putting bomb-making information
>on the Internet!
Its not bomb-making, its destructive testing apparatus :-)
>On a slightly more serious note, I'm surprised from the
>excerpts of the description that the $500 of parts would
>generate enough joules of electrical energy induced into
>sensitive parts of computer equipment in some reasonable range
>to do a lot of damage.
Wasn't he talking about EMI, not actual frying of chips (e.g.,
puncturing the 100's-of-nm-thick gate oxides in MOS)?
I read only the excerpt, but isn't a spark gap used for
generating a broad spectrum, including fairly high
frequencies (think tesla coil)?
Digital circuits don't like transients in their signals.
High frequency RF is invasive.
Capacitors are cheap.
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