Punstoppable
A list of puns related to "American Typewriter"
If so, would that imply that these kinds of typewriters were potentially utilized to help Chinese children adjust to their society during the Sino-American war?
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 80%. (I'm a bot)
> A National Security Agency memo that recently resurfaced a few years after it was first published contains a detailed analysis of what very possibly was the world's first keylogger-a 1970s bug that Soviet spies implanted in US diplomats' IBM Selectric typewriters to monitor classified letters and memos.
> The implant, which could only be seen using X-ray equipment, recorded the precise location of the little ball Selectric typewriters used to imprint a character on paper.
> The Soviet implants were discovered through the painstaking analysis of more than 10 tons' worth of equipment seized from US embassies and consulates and shipped back to the US. The implants were ultimately found inside 16 typewriters used from 1976 to 1984 at the US embassy in Moscow and the US consulate in Leningrad. The bugs went undetected for the entire eight-year span and only came to light following a tip from a US ally whose own embassy was the target of a similar eavesdropping operation.
> The Soviets continually upgraded and improved their implants.
> Newer devices operated by the US may have had the ability to detect the implants, but even then an element of luck would have been required, since the infected typewriter would have to be turned on, the bug would have to be turned on, and the analyzer would have to be tuned to the right frequency.
> The account of "Project Gunman," which was the name given to the once-covert operation to discover and respond to the implants, underscores how drastically hacking has changed in the past 40 years.
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