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The Americans, in turn, bugged the Xerox copiers in the Soviet embassy [0]. The copier machines were so complex that even the Soviets bought them from Xerox, in
by elteto 7y ago
The Americans, in turn, bugged the Xerox copiers in the Soviet embassy [0]. The copier machines were so complex that even the Soviets bought them from Xerox, instead of trying to make their own clones.
Edit: this link [1] has more details about the story.
[0] https://www.p4photel.com/topic/at-the-height-of-the-cold-war-xerox-was-one-of-america-s-top-spies https://www.p4photel.com/topic/at-the-height-of-the-cold-war...
[1] https://electricalstrategies.com/about/in-the-news/spies-in-the-xerox-machine/ https://electricalstrategies.com/about/in-the-news/spies-in-...
- duxup 7y agoWhat amazes me is that some of these schemes work. Like a machine that copies official documents. How do you not EXPECT that to be bugged?
- elteto 7y agoI remember reading somewhere that the Soviets _did_ suspect it, but finding the bug was non-trivial due to the mechanical complexity of the machines.