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1998-12-23 - Re: Question about ‘TEMPEST’

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From: mgraffam@idsi.net
To: Tiny <hermit@citrus.infi.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1998-12-23 05:28:11 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:28:11 +0800

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From: mgraffam@idsi.net
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:28:11 +0800
To: Tiny <hermit@citrus.infi.net>
Subject: Re: Question about 'TEMPEST'
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On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Tiny wrote:

> I`m sorry to ask such a stupid question.  Is 'TEMPEST' an acronym, and
> if so, what
> exactly does it represent?

Some have turned it into an acronyms.

Originally it was just a code-word referring to emanations security. 

See http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html

Of interest:

"..the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give 
delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices.."

>From Shakespeare's "The Tempest" .. the benefits of a liberal education.

Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@idsi.net)
"Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine."
			Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience"

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