Thursday, January 16, 2020

Worlds first keylogger?

How the KGB Bugged American Typewriters During the Cold War
By Kyle Mizokami,

  • In the 1970s, U.S. intelligence believed the embassy in Moscow was leaking information.
  • Repeated searches for a secret transmitter in the embassy turned up nothing.
  • Finally, engineers discovered a typewriter with a transmitter hacked into it.

Fascinating story about how the Soviets modified an IBM Selectric typewriter to covertly transmit every keystroke to a KGB monitoring station. Electronically, this hack is a work of art.

h/t the Michael Tsai Blog

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