About

The Anti-TEMPEST Network Project, formerly the Anti-TEMPEST Computer project

As quoted from the original 'about' page: “The Anti-Tempest project is a collaborated effort by associates of the Nettwerked.net collective to create a fully functional / operational, "secure" anti-emanation computer using Canadian Government-certified / CSE (Communications Security Establishment) and Ontario Hydro-approved tempest equipment. Originally this machine (with a 386SX processor, and custom-made and well labeled parts) was picked up from Government Surplus Sales in Edmonton Alberta in the mid-1990's by Cyb0rg/asm. After years of dragging this extremely heavy and fairly large computer around, he got sick of it and gave it to The Clone as a present for his 20th birthday in hopes he might have more use for it.” Well, long story short, the project lost a lot of steam (bad hardware, etc) and in January 2005, the TEMPEST machine (at this time no more than spare parts and a case) was given to me (Cybur Netiks) by The Clone (coincidentally, my birthday is in January, the TEMPEST seems to have a nack for becoming a birthday gift). The original plan was to host BBS on the tempest, which i still plan to do, provided I ever get a high-speed connection. The original TEMPEST machine itself does not currently have the resources to handle any large workloads by itself, so i plan to shield my other computer and network them, thus creating a Anti-TEMPEST secure network!

TEMPEST or van eck phreaking is about harnessing the EM (Electro Magnetic radiation, i believe) given off by electronic equipment (eg; monitor, hard disk, computer cables, toaster ovens etc.) and re-assembling that back into meaningful data, such as viewing the information being transferred through the computer, seeing what is on your monitor, etc. ( it is believed that the 'pizza van with the antenna on the roof' as seen in movies is supposed to be doing this) for more information, just go to www.google.ca and search 'tempest' or 'van eck phreaking'

TEMPEST Mirror sites:

www.nettwerked.net/tempest/ thanks to The Clone for mirroring the project on nettwerked.

Current specs:

MACHINE 1 (original tempest)

-Pentium 166 processor

-2 gig hard disk

-128 mb sdram

-FreeBSD

MACHINE 2 (support/workload machine)

-AMD 750 MHZ

-40 gig hard disk

-256 mb sdram

-Linux

Donations: donations are currently not accepted unless in person. This is temporary until i can get everything sorted out. (oh, and no monetary donations, please, hardware only) Currently we ( I ) need is:

-Hard Disks (Not necessary, but nice)

-RAM (SDRAM only, please)

You can contact me about donations at: cybur_netiks@Phreaker.net

Shouts to:

-The Clone: for donating the tempest itself

-the original crew: for starting this project off.

-Cygnus: for donating 256 mb of ram