The Thing (listening device)
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the-thing-listening-device-206-6273014
title:
The Thing (listening device)
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The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945. Because it was passive, needing electromagnetic energy from an outside source to become energized and active, it is considered a predecessor of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. The Thing
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encyclopedia
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Covert listening device
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
date created:
2008-02-25T19:32:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T16:29:13Z
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