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Yeah but "can't hear you" is not the same as "sophisticated signal processing techniques will be thwarted;" putting the phone in another room might not be good
by betterunix 13y ago
Yeah but "can't hear you" is not the same as "sophisticated signal processing techniques will be thwarted;" putting the phone in another room might not be good enough. Leaving the phones in the car might work, though I suspected that the risk of the phones being removed from the car while everyone is inside would be pretty high in Hong Kong.
All in all, I think the fridge's insulation probably acts as a good sound barrier, and the hum from the compressor probably adds quite a bit of noise. Probably a smart thing for someone in Snowden's position to demand.
- jevinskie 13y agoOr being removed/replaced and outfitted with an independent bug complete with radio and power supply. Perhaps it exists as part of a covert, replacement spy battery that powers the phone!
- reeses 13y agoThe "refrigerator" had a false back. When the phones were placed inside and attention directed elsewhere, NSA agents opened the back of the refrigerator and installed bugging devices (complete with reserve power cells) in the phones. The goal has always been to identify and entrap counter-intelligence targets. Snowden is a false flag exercise, which would be obvious to anyone who read Catch-22. You can never be paranoid enough, because they have a million people with TS clearance thinking of ways to get into your heads. That's just in the US.
- markdown 13y ago> though I suspected that the risk of the phones being removed from the car while everyone is inside would be pretty high in Hong Kong. The crime rate in Hong Kong is relatively low, especially compared to Snowden's country of origin.