Covert listening device
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A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone. The use of bugs, called bugging, is a common technique in surveillance, espionage and in police investigations.
A bug does not have to be a device specifically designed for the purpose of eavesdropping. For instance, with the right equipment, it is possible to remotely activate the microphone of cellular phones, even when a call is not being made, to listen to conversations in the vicinity of the phone.
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See also
- Surveillance
- Acoustic cryptanalysis
- Communications interception
- Eavesdropping
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Espionage
- Greek telephone tapping case 2004-2005
- National Cryptologic Museum
- Nonlinear junction detector
- Peter Wright
- Privacy
- Privacy International
- Technical surveillance counter-measures
- Telephone tapping
- TEMPEST
- The Thing (listening device) - Aka the "Great Seal bug"
- Watergate scandal
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