[SunRescue] WTF is this?

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In a message dated 3/9/2000 7:25:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
martin at dsres.com writes:

> 
>  Tempest is a system for shielding equipment to prevent anyone
>  eavesdropping by monitoring the EMI that it puts out. I think
>  it was some sort of military system, but there may have been
>  commercial variants.
>  
Tempest is the military program to protect vital military equipment from the 
Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) that a nuclear bomb blast puts out. These units 
are supposed to survive a close nuclear explosion. This assumes the 
electricity stays on.

Paxton