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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by willvarfar on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:00PM (#41569847)
During the cold war, Russia intercepted typewriters and teleprinters going to the US and other embassies and inserted implants in them. https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/
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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by dredmorbius on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:26PM (#41573546)
And the US CIA ran the "Swiss" firm Crypto AG, which sold cable-encryption (as in telegraphic / telex coms) equipment with pre-installed back-doors:

<https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812499752/uncovering-the-cias...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG>

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