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Soviet Spying on US Selectric Typewriters (Schneier on Security)

2015-10-12 13:19

In the 19980s, the Soviet Union bugged the IBM Selectric typewriters in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. This NSA document discusses how the US discovered the bugs and what we did about it. Codename is GUNMAN. Is this the world's first keylogger? Maybe....

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/10/soviet_spying_o.html

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