[50902] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Wed Aug 14 11:43:13 2002
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:35:09 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <006101c243a7$a0dc0b50$e76610ac@PASLAP030474> from "Al Rowland" at Aug 14, 2002 08:31:15 AM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In general:
Things work far better on TV than in real life.
This includes James Bond toys.
Standoff distance is your friend; for both electromagnetic
radiation and 0.5mv^2 from fertilizer and fuel oil.
The second is so much the case that I knew of a major secure
installation that had a blanket TEMPEST waiver; i.e. machines
radiating were not a threat. Why? They had a minimum one mile
standoff distance between the outer fence{s} from public roads/land
and the inner buildings where the classified work took place. And
the few visitors inside the compound were controlled such that
there was no chance they'd wander in with a van of receivers.
I think it safe to say the Pentagon has many precautions of this
nature in place. Tried to park next to the building recently ;-?
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