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Given that decades ago, the Russians embedded completely passive microphones inside paintings and have them as gifts, undetectable to most equipment…yeah a full
by qeternity 5y ago
Given that decades ago, the Russians embedded completely passive microphones inside paintings and have them as gifts, undetectable to most equipment…yeah a full blown laptop should almost be an admission that “hey we’re trying to bug you”.
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoDont take a laptop from a stranger!
- bierjunge 5y agoNah, then they will try to get the information over other channels. Take the laptop and gift it to someone over craigslist or a similar site. It will take them some time to realize they are not monitoring you, using a persona, but a soccer mom from the suburbs who is really into social media and cooking. It won't make anything more secure, but it can buy you some time and waste the attackers resources.
- atlasunshrugged 5y agoNow I'm picturing a series where actually it turns out that the person you sold it to is a major drug dealer or something and it plunges them into a web of international intrigue when the foreign government tries to blackmail them and then they come after you as revenge.
- torgian 5y agoI would watch this movie / tv series
- joshuaissac 5y agoThere was The Thing, a Soviet passive transmitter that was a replica of the Great Seal and gifted to the American embassy in Moscow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
- adolph 5y agoThe Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Léon Theremin,[4] best known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument. Little known non-fact: Theremin repurposed the unsuccessful theremin banjo edition as the passive transmitter.
- qeternity 5y agoYep this is the thing (no pun intended) that I was thinking of. Unreal.