Historical Tech Espionage
Comments discuss Cold War-era and modern government espionage involving compromised hardware, such as bugs in typewriters, copiers, embassy devices, and backdoored encryption machines by agencies like CIA, NSA, and KGB.
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Curiously, a similar organisation would bug same.https://web.archive.org/web/20210730214414/https://spectrum....https://archive.is/T16Fj(GDPR-noncompliant co
More details here:https://web.archive.org/web/20200212014117/https://www.washi...
It's weird this article talks like this is new information. I guess it's not probably not widely known, but this stuff was discussed in James Bamford's Puzzle Palace, published in the early 1980's (nearly 35 years ago).
There is a book called Blind Man's Bluff that documents how this started during the cold war by NSA tapping soviet undersea communication cables.According to the book one of the captured tapping devices is on display in Moscow and on the side it says "Property of the United States Government". No point in hiding it...http://en.wikipedia.org&#x
Reminds me of the Cold War when the CIA planted camera's inside XEROX copiers and was stealing everyone’s secrets for decades. http://www.editinternational.com/read.php?id=47ddf19823b89
Not exactly what OP mentioned, but something like that did happen in the past:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jul/14/russian-s...
Many cases like this with US spieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Allen_Davis_incident
It seems espionage is a recurring theme : http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/12/14/buran-shut...
Was this used as some sort of a spy device?
Huh crazy, I hadn't heard about this before! Just found a couple posts on it [0][1], for anyone who's interested.0: https://electricalstrategies.com/about/in-the-news/spies-in-...1: https:/&