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Santeria spells, or too many mojitos. Joking aside, mostly likely overpowered microwave espionage equipment they got from Russians a long time ago, and that is
by dharma1 9y ago
Santeria spells, or too many mojitos.
Joking aside, mostly likely overpowered microwave espionage equipment they got from Russians a long time ago, and that is still in use.
Google "US Embassy microwave moscow" to find out what happened back in the 70s.
- userbinator 9y agoThere's also this from several decades earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
- khazhou 9y agoThe Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Léon Theremin, best-known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.
- gcb0 9y agoit probably wasn't. yes, Theremin invented it, but the patent and production is from American firms. and cmon, if you're bugging a high profile country diplomat, you don't make a bugging device with a freaking opening mechanism! if that were indeed from Russians, it would have been at least glued shut and not have a hinge.
- owenmarshall 9y agolmfao i'm pretty sure the image you're looking at is a reproduction of the original for display in a museum and am a bit surprised that i need to have this conversation, but here we are
- KGIII 9y agoI'm guessing (hoping?) their comment was being facetious.
- qqg3 9y agoDid you bother to read the article? This is exactly what it talks about.
- jwilk 9y agoFrom the HN guidelines: Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
- phkahler 9y agoI failed to notice the word microwave in the article. I even searched the text and "micro" was not to be found.
- briankelly 9y agoEdit: nevermind, not from the Guardian article. It actually does directly mention microwaves: > The Russian security services were also known to flood the U.S. embassy in Moscow with electromagnetic radiation. They would beam concentrated microwaves and electronic pulses at the Embassy in an attempt to eavesdrop on U.S. typewriters and conversations.
- phkahler 9y agoYou're not talking about TFA are you?
- briankelly 9y agoAh my mistake, that was from badcede's article at the top.