{"id":1119,"date":"2015-10-12T20:10:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2015-10-12T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:11:10","slug":"how-the-us-reverse-engineered-soviet-typewriter-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/how-the-us-reverse-engineered-soviet-typewriter-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"How the US Reverse Engineered Soviet Typewriter Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating and in-depth description of how the US uncovered and reverse engineered sophisticated bugs placed in the electric typewriters of embassy staff in Moscow in the late 70s\/early 80s.<br \/>\nBruce Schneier suggests these devices may the worlds first keyloggers and it&#8217;s easy to see why. These astounding devices buffered characters typed by the golf-ball and sent them to the soviets using RF burst transmitters. It took 8 years to discover they were there!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsa.gov\/about\/_files\/cryptologic_heritage\/center_crypt_history\/publications\/learning_from_the_enemy_the_gunman_project.pdf\">https:\/\/www.nsa.gov\/about\/_files\/cryptologic_heritage\/center_crypt_history\/publications\/learning_from_the_enemy_the_gunman_project.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating and in-depth description of how the US uncovered and reverse engineered sophisticated bugs placed in the electric typewriters of embassy staff in Moscow in the late 70s\/early 80s. Bruce Schneier suggests these devices may the worlds first keyloggers and it&#8217;s easy to see why. These astounding devices buffered characters typed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-reverse-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}