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Emanation Monitoring

Emanation monitoring is to monitor electric or electromagnetic radiation emanations from electronic equipment including microchips, monitors, printers, and all electronic devices emit radiation through the air or through conductors (such as wiring or water pipes). Tempest was the name of a classified (secret) U.S. government project to study the susceptibility of some computer and telecommunications devices to emit electromagnetic radiation (EMR) in a manner that can be used to reconstruct intelligible data.

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Emanation Monitoring