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But then again the Russians themselves famously placed very difficult to detect bugs in the mechanical typewriters of the American embassy.
by formerly_proven 6y ago
But then again the Russians themselves famously placed very difficult to detect bugs in the mechanical typewriters of the American embassy.
- philwelch 6y agoAnd the Americans put one in the Soviet embassy’s Xerox machine. I think a potential lesson of the story is to use technology that you understand at least as well as your enemy does. The communist bloc maintained registries of typewriter fingerprints so they could identify which typewriters were used to reproduce samizdat; I think it’s fair to assume that the Russians understand typewriters very well.