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Forgive my optimism, but perhaps things like this happen all the time and it's hardly ever newsworthy...? Yeah, I can't really find a positive outlook to all t

Forgive my optimism, but perhaps things like this happen all the time and it's hardly ever newsworthy...? Yeah, I can't really find a positive outlook to all this international intrigue and espionage. There isn't one, right? This particular development, though, seems way more dramatic than the rest. I wonder what point there is in waiting until tomorrow to release the source of the bug.

TillE 13y ago
There was a huge diplomatic incident in 2006 when the Russians discovered listening devices planted by the UK. This doesn't happen every day. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-plot-spy-russians http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-plot-s...
- loupeabody 13y ago
  Wow, a fake rock? I can hardly believe this actually happened in a serious context.
  - fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
    Looks like something they got from Sharper Image.
- Spooky23 13y ago
  Sure it does. The Soviets went as far as to embed some sort of passive microphones in cinder blocks used to build the US Embassy in Moscow. The US planted copier repairmen/spies to install cameras in xerox machines at the Russian embassy.
  - brown9-2 13y ago
    Just like when the US built a tunnel under the Soviet embassy in DC: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/us/us-thinks-agent-revealed-tunnel-at-soviet-embassy.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/us/us-thinks-agent-reveale...
- objclxt 13y ago
  It wasn't a 'huge diplomatic incident' - it didn't really impact UK/Russian relations in any meaningful or long term way. It was nowhere on the scale of, say, Litvinenko, which did have diplomatic consequences. Countries like to crow when they come across potentially rather inept attempts at espionage, but there's no real diplomatic issues raised since everyone expects espionage to be happening. It's PR more than anything else.

TillE 13y ago

There was a huge diplomatic incident in 2006 when the Russians discovered listening devices planted by the UK. This doesn't happen every day. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-plot-spy-russians http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-plot-s...

loupeabody 13y ago
Wow, a fake rock? I can hardly believe this actually happened in a serious context.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
  Looks like something they got from Sharper Image.
Spooky23 13y ago
Sure it does. The Soviets went as far as to embed some sort of passive microphones in cinder blocks used to build the US Embassy in Moscow. The US planted copier repairmen/spies to install cameras in xerox machines at the Russian embassy.
- brown9-2 13y ago
  Just like when the US built a tunnel under the Soviet embassy in DC: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/us/us-thinks-agent-revealed-tunnel-at-soviet-embassy.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/us/us-thinks-agent-reveale...
objclxt 13y ago
It wasn't a 'huge diplomatic incident' - it didn't really impact UK/Russian relations in any meaningful or long term way. It was nowhere on the scale of, say, Litvinenko, which did have diplomatic consequences. Countries like to crow when they come across potentially rather inept attempts at espionage, but there's no real diplomatic issues raised since everyone expects espionage to be happening. It's PR more than anything else.