We were always joking before the political change like: - How do you know the KGB dropped a new bug in your room? - ??? - There is a new cupboard... Russian electronic was known to be good but huge as well. In '88 there were still relay based computers in some army devices... Tamas On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Russell McMahon wrote: > > On many bank offices in Hungary there are shields installed into the wall > ... > > Then there's the LASER window-pane bug ... . > > Only somewhat related: The famous Soviet bug in the Moscow US embassy > plaque > found during renovations was reported to have been duplicated and improved > by the British and used against Eastern bloc countries for a long while > afterwards*. Copies also said to have been supplied to the US for their use > AFAIR. 'What goes around comes around' principle. > > Works on harmonic reradiation of the exciting signal. Early remote powered > RFID lookalike :-). The embassy was reported to have been awash with RF - > thought to have been aimed at biological interaction but perhaps intended > for bug activation. > > > Russell McMahon > > > Gargoyle will probably find under something like embassy bug Cabot Lodge. > > Diagram of original bug and more details in "Spycatcher". > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.mcuhobby.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist