That little thorn in your fingertip

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  Waldo Jaquith waldo.net · May 11
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  In the 1970, the Soviets planted a monitoring device in the U.S. embassy. It took years to find, because it was brilliant: the IBM Selectric typewriters had been almost invisibly modified to broadcast every keystroke, allowing every typed document to be captured in real-time by Russia.
  

  The Crazy Story of How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters

  The NSA engineer who discovered the Cold War scheme came away with admiration for his adversary’s ingenuity

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  That little thorn in your fingertip itsjustme2.bsky.social · May 11
  The difference between the police and the secret police is anonymity and shame. www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...
  

  The Difference Between The Police And The Secret Police

  They know. They can smell it too. And the stink is just as bad to them as it is to normal people and to decent people.

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