You can refer to a situation in which people are very angry or excited as a tempest. I hadn't foreseen the tempest my request would cause a tempest in a teapot: see teapot = storm. a play by William Shakespeare about Prospero, the Duke of Milan, who has been forced by his brother to live alone on a distant island with his daughter Miranda. The other main characters are Prospero's magical helper, Ariel, and his slave Caliban
TEMPEST is a standard for electromagnetic shielding for computer equipment It was created in response to the fact that information can be read from computer radiation (e g , from a CRT) at quite a distance and with little effort Needless to say, encryption doesn't do much good if the cleartext is available this way The typical home computer would fail all of the TEMPEST standards by a long shot So, if you are doing anything illegal, don't expect PGP or any other encryption program to save you The government could just set up a monitoring van outside your home and read everything that you are doing on your computer