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Re: 'Spy cameras may have been installed in photocopiers all over theworld'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross Anderson)
Sun Sep 5 10:55:39 1999
To: Zombie Cow <waste@zor.hut.fi>
Cc: eucrypto@fitug.de, ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk, cryptography@c2.net,
Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Sep 1999 21:40:06 +0300."
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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 12:02:23 +0100
From: Ross Anderson <Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
[Slightly off topic, but too much fun (and too short) to reject. --Perry]
> In 1962, according to Stover, the CIA quietly contracted the Xerox
> company to design a miniature camera, to be planted inside the photocopier
> at the Soviet Union's embassy in Washington.
In 1981-2 I was working in Kensington Church Street in London. Just up
the road was an Iraqi media organisation which fronted arms buying for
the iraqis in their war against Iran. Just round the corner was the
London branch of Bank Melli Iran, which performed the same function
for the Iranians.
As we only had a small copier, I fairly frequently went to the copy
shop in Kensington High Street. I noticed that whenever I ordered n
copies of a document, the thing would flash n+1 times. `Nice one', I
thought, and kept my mouth shut
Ross
