[Cryptography] jammers, nor not

[Julian Macassey]

On 2017-02-28 at 07:05, Henry Baker (hbaker1 at pipeline.com) wrote:

> 
> When I lived in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, I met someone
> whose business was building Faraday Cage rooms for several
> million dollars a pop.  They had the usual suspect customers:
> Lockheed, Northrup, etc., as well as the tin-foil hat
> conspiracy types.  I didn't realize that the tin-foil types had
> that much money, but I was reminded that I was in Hollywood.

	In the hills above Valencia, California (Just North of
Los Angeles), is a complex that used to be a Lockheed property. I
property that did nit exist on any maps and had no street
numbers.

	There is a very nice white building there that has been
used in SciFi movies. But the building used to hold two flight
simulators covering three stories each. The buildings were clad
in metal and ceramic. The purpose was to block not only RF, but
lasers bouncing off windows, etc and listening to sounds. 

	What was also interesting was the electrical power to the
building. There was an outbuilding that was set up with a local
sub-station privately owned - No not by Southern California
Edison but Lockheed, although SCE supplied the high voltage to
Lockheed. The output of the sub-station power drove large
electric motors. The electric motors drove generators that
supplied the super secret building with power so providing an
"air gap".

	All this to make sure the Soviets wouldn't know what was
going on.

-- 
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possible to break the law.” - Moxie Marlinspike, March RSA Conf' 2016