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Soviet Spying on US Selectric Typewriters

Current Berkman People and Projects 2015-10-13

Summary:

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union bugged the IBM Selectric typewriters in the US 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.

Link:

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

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Tags:

spyware russia keylogging espionage

Authors:

schneier

Date tagged:

10/13/2015, 18:14

Date published:

10/12/2015, 09:19