This was even better than watching a James Bond movie
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-of-software-code-ever-written/answer/John-Byrd-2 …
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Have you read the story of the Selectric bug? (“Bug” in the espionage sense, not in the modern software sense.)
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(Don’t mean to suggest I’m one-upping your story, but I found that one equally engrossing and you just might like it!)
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I think these are the two best versions: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/index.htm … https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-soviets-used-ibm-selectric-keyloggers-to-spy-on-us-diplomats/ … (I wrote it up for my book too, and I would like to believe it’s better than both of the above, but that’s not published yet.)
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