People who travelled to Beijing for a summit between the United States and China had to throw away items they received during the trip before boarding Air Force One, presumably for security reasons.
Do you know what ‘passive’ means? It’s a basically a mirror for a specific frequency. There’s no way to “detect” it other than tearing apart whatever it’s hidden in.
The fact that it was made with 1960’s Soviet analog tech should tell you that China could plausibly make something better and smaller now.
It would certainly be detectable. You could do an X-ray, sweep the RF spectrum and see the energy disappear at the right frequency, things like that.
They had that tech in the 60s too.
Also when the bug was in operation it was definitely not passive. It was being fed by what must have been a really strong signal to power it, and transmitted the results back.
Who “they”? Security services are not the hive, It’s not like everyone knows everything pr never misses anything. Or do you think it’s like a game where you unlock the “passive listening device countermeasures” technology and suddenly 100% bugs across the country are found and new bugs can’t be planted?
Or do you think it’s like a game where you unlock the “passive listening device countermeasures” technology
Kinda, yes. Now that everyone knows how it works, and they will, because intelligence agencies share this stuff with their allies, it would become a lot harder to pull the same trick again.
The FBI missed a passive bug that hung in the office of the US ambassador to Russia for 7 years.
Don’t count them out yet
Fascinating stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
This is old ASF, if you don’t think we can’t detect these then 😂😂😂
Do you know what ‘passive’ means? It’s a basically a mirror for a specific frequency. There’s no way to “detect” it other than tearing apart whatever it’s hidden in.
The fact that it was made with 1960’s Soviet analog tech should tell you that China could plausibly make something better and smaller now.
It would certainly be detectable. You could do an X-ray, sweep the RF spectrum and see the energy disappear at the right frequency, things like that.
They had that tech in the 60s too.
Also when the bug was in operation it was definitely not passive. It was being fed by what must have been a really strong signal to power it, and transmitted the results back.
tech is tech. if it’s able to not be detected then it’s able to be not detected now.
This is assuming one country is lagging behind their advancements. Most countries are finally catching up to our tech made in the 90s my dude.
or it assumes they advance at the same rate. that’s my entire point.
I’m not gonna quibble with the details of that wild exaggeration, but I hope we can agree China is absolutely not one of those countries.
If anything, we’re lagging behind them.
Why do you think it works like that? They know what it is and how it works, so they know what to look for.
i’m saying they grow at the same rate.
Who “they”? Security services are not the hive, It’s not like everyone knows everything pr never misses anything. Or do you think it’s like a game where you unlock the “passive listening device countermeasures” technology and suddenly 100% bugs across the country are found and new bugs can’t be planted?
Kinda, yes. Now that everyone knows how it works, and they will, because intelligence agencies share this stuff with their allies, it would become a lot harder to pull the same trick again.