Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters
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Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters
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Re: Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters
#2Fun fact: you can see the original component that was packed at the national cryptologic museum.
Re: Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters
#3Fun fact: you can see the original component that was packed at the national cryptologic museum.
For being right in the shadow of Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum is a really awesome place. It's also one of the only places in the US where you can actually play with working Enigma machines.
Re: Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters
#4Some interesting tidbits - the NSA team leader in charge of investigating the equipment offered a "bug bounty" to find the eavesdropping devices [0]:
"As an incentive - probably demonstrating his own impatience - the leader of the team, Walter Deely, offered a US$ 5,000 bonus for the first person to find an eavesdropping device. Then, on the evening of Monday 23 July 1984, technician Michael (Mike) Arneson noticed an anomaly in the power switch of an IBM Selectric typewriter and decided to x-ray the whole machine from top to bottom"
0. Not exactly in the sense of today's "bug bounties".
Re: Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters
#5Are there any known cases where paper shredders were/are bugged?
Re: Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters
#6Fun fact: you can see the original component that was packed at the national cryptologic museum.
For being right in the shadow of Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum is a really awesome place. It's also one of the only places in the US where you can actually play with working Enigma machines.
Yep, great place. Two Engimas with which you can encode and decode messages.
This place is also awesome; just north of BWI:
Re: Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters
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#8https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10773214
Hi Daniel, would you please remove my account and its all comments.
Re: Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters
#9https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10773214
Hi Daniel. Rather than just shadow banning, I wonder if I could get you to just delete the account and its comments. Thanks again.
Re: Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
For being right in the shadow of Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum is a really awesome place. It's also one of the only places in the US where you can actually play with working Enigma machines.
Yep, great place. Two Engimas with which you can encode and decode messages. This place is also awesome; just north of BWI: http://www.nationalelectronicsmuseum.org
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