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#2If you are a high ranking government official and receive a gift that you want to keep in your office, then make a replica, and put that on your wall instead.
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#3Also one of the top 3 Sci Fi movies of all time:
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#5Maybe someday the Soviet side of things will be declassified, and we can read the technical account from that end. Would be interesting.
There seem to be some technical unknowns in the article. I don’t think you can get FM back from the passive cavity, just AM, unless you can pump the cavity with feedback. Same goes for re-radiating at a harmonic. Maybe if the Q of the cavity were super high. Again, would be interesting to see the technical details of the receiving equipment.
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#6related prior discussion/submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15498685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15272072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19854787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11771587
Three of the four links here, have no discussion. One has hardly any. Posting interesting topics which have not received much prior discussion is encouraged here.
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#7I'm currently reading "Spycatcher" by Peter Wright, I would recommend if you're interested in topics like this.
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#8Soviets attempted to repeat this in the 80s when passive eavesdropping devices were embedded into concrete slabs and columns used in a construction of new US embassy and supplied by local contractors [1].
From what I remember the case lingered well into Perestroika period when complete documentation on this project was passed to the Americans as a gesture of "goodwill and friendship", presumably in exchange for chicken leg imports (aka "Bush legs") and other Western luxuries.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/15/world/the-bugged-embassy-...
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#9First stumpled upon this because it's mentioned in the slides of https://idlewords.com/talks/our_comrade_the_electron.htm
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#10If you are a high ranking government official and receive a gift that you want to keep in your office, then make a replica, and put that on your wall instead.
It's like the old "never click on a link in an unsolicited email" rule.