Second is, in your home, listening devices ... You're right.
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Folks with listening devices turned way up are hurting themselves.
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You go paranoid about listening devices and then they're there.
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There may actually be something to always-listening devices, after all.
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Seismic listening devices, ambulances, fire engines and hydraulic tools followed as funding increased.
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"In the future, I believe headphones will become assisted listening devices," he said.
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State Department officials have assumed that listening devices are planted throughout the guesthouse.
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Israeli operatives installed listening devices in Rolf's home and office, and in his phones.
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One program, code-named Weeping Angel, uses Samsung "smart" televisions as covert listening devices.
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In March, the agency reportedly spent $3,000 to sweep his office for covert listening devices.
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Drake has been taking over our listening devices of choice now for nearly 10 years.
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Why is it a good idea to hide your listening devices in a Tampax box?
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That's due in no small part to the explosive growth in "personal listening devices" like smartphones.
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"I'd check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House."
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"Placing listening devices in conference rooms, hotels and restaurants is traditional Espionage 101," Ms. Ravich said.
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She sewed listening devices into Mark's clothes to secretly record his conversations when they were apart.
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Other theories have included toxins, listening devices that accidentally emitted harmful sounds or even mass hysteria.
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Edwin Steinmetz Associates was hired to conduct a security sweep for listening devices in Pruitt's office.
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University of Michigan researchers have pointed to unintended interference of ultrasound listening devices as a possible explanation.
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The upcoming Echo Studio speaker is another testament to Amazon's determination to make high-quality listening devices.
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He's had his office swept for listening devices—and just in case, he installed a sound-proof booth.
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But the real future is AirPods, the truly wireless listening devices that look just like EarPods without the wires.
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The Technical Services Division of the Secret Service is charged with sweeping the White House premises for listening devices.
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If the friendly service managed to plant listening devices in ISIS meeting places, those devices are now at risk.
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China purchased a Boeing 767 in 2000 to be its presidential jet and it arrived riddled with listening devices.
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She arrived and immediately started combing through a vase of flowers on the table, checking for government listening devices.
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The conference room had been swept for listening devices the night before, and security guards were stationed outside overnight.
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He previously spent about $9,000 to an outside contractor who swept the office for listening devices and installed biometric locks.
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Unlike switching to a metal straw, drawing lines in the sand for always-on listening devices does make a difference.
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" Senator Lindsay Graham Tweeted that Trump should check the soccer ball which Putin gave at their meeting for "listening devices.
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During a sprawling federal corruption inquiry almost a decade ago, lawmakers took to having their offices swept for listening devices.
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The excerpts were from transcripts of audiotapes widely reported before to have been compiled from listening devices inside the consulate.
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Finally, if it were me, I'd check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House.
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The five men arrested that night were found with two listening devices and 40 rolls of unexposed film for capturing documents.
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When the listening devices failed and needed repairs, the burglars had to break in again, and that time they got caught.
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"If it were me, I'd check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House," Sen.
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The CIA is supposed to be sneaking into the offices of foreign adversaries, stealing documents, planting listening devices, and so forth.
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We debate the trade-offs inherent in technologies such as cell phone tracking, school surveillance cameras, and always-on listening devices.
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Guests who require accommodations such as assistive listening devices or American Sign Language interpretation should email the museum at [email protected].
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The case has been paralyzed by disputes over the listening devices, as well as questions from the case judge about his authority.
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Edwin Steinmetz Associates conducted a security sweep for listening devices in Pruitt's office, as first reported by The Associated Press last year.
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"If it were me, I'd check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House," Graham said.
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But there is no mandatory standard that restricts the maximum sound output for listening devices or headphones sold in the United States.
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It opened to rave reviews in September, with its fancy listening devices given, free of charge, by the German headphones brand Sennheiser.
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They may also try to plant listening devices in locations — like Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort — where Trump might have sensitive conversations.
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Bilingual listening devices were provided by language justice collaborative Antena, ensuring that language, at least, would not be a barrier to communication.
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However, Huawei has previously stated that the Chinese government cannot legally compel telecoms firms to install backdoors or listening devices in other nations.
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However, under Theresa May ministers have been barred from wearing them amid concerns that they could be used by hackers as listening devices.
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A federal court has called off an inquiry into listening devices found during meetings between detainees and attorneys at the Guantánamo Bay prison.
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It was reported in December that EPA hired Steinmetz last March on a $3,000 "communications audit" to sweep Pruitt's office for listening devices.
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A private contractor was hired to ensure Pruitt's office wasn't bugged with hidden listening devices and biometric locks were installed on the doors.
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His business partner received a contract from the EPA last year to sweep Pruitt's office for listening devices, the Associated Press reported in December.
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The data dump revealed CIA efforts to hack Apple and Android smartphones and even described efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices.
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Equipped with sensitive microphones, they serve as in-home listening devices — benign-seeming bugs — that greatly extend the companies' ability to monitor people's habits.
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The charges stemmed from a yearslong investigation involving wiretapped calls, physical surveillance and even listening devices installed inside an office where mob associates worked.
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Breen's staggering textile sculpture and accompanying drawings were paired with compelling poems written by Morse, both printed around the gallery and available on listening devices.
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Each Coachella attendee gets an exclusive code to skip the waitlist and purchase Here Active Listening devices to wear at the week-long music festival.
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The underwater listening devices being used by the French search team are capable of detecting the beacons from a distance of up to 2.5 miles.
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Rescue workers, joined by construction workers, desperately dug through the rubble looking and listening for signs of life, using listening devices, fiber optics and dogs.
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One common restriction in SCIFs is to keep out smartphones and other electronic devices, which can be turned into covert listening devices or spy cameras.
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This is why presidents normally have sensitive conversations in Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities — essentially high-tech tents that ensure no listening devices are within earshot.
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In January, the Berlin Senate had to officially confirm that there were no listening devices hidden in a pair of decorative fake palm trees outside.
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A business associate of Pruitt's head of security swept his office to scan for secret listening devices, according to records obtained by the Washington Post.
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Researcher also said the detection of a "hydroacoustic signal" from underwater listening devices at the time is another piece of evidence pointing to a nuclear test.
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Rather, reports that CIA operatives have hacked Samsung smart TVs to turn them into listening devices and are potentially working on hacking cars have them worried.
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There was little to buy, and, more important, the Americans suspected that Cuban intelligence would slip listening devices into almost everything they purchased on the island.
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"Certainly a device that only measures an increase in noise is better than having internet-connected surveillance cameras or listening devices in your home," she said.
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Some officers met their sources at a restaurant where Chinese agents had planted listening devices, former officials said, and even the waiters worked for Chinese intelligence.
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One of the more lurid files describes "Weeping Angel", a program that can turn Samsung internet-connected televisions into listening devices, sending conversations back to the CIA.
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The facilities are carefully designed and controlled to ensure that electronic signals, surveillance methods, or other listening devices do not compromise the information discussed in these rooms.
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Most popular listening devices: Mobile is by far the most popular device for audiobooks, with more than half listening on iOS and a quarter listening on Android.
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Prior to Falkor's arrival, an autonomous sailing drone and autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with sonar listening devices were deployed to help the vessel home in on the sharks.
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The best listening devices I own are headphones—which is why I often spend time on the couch, alone, watching TV with headphones plugged into my Roku remote.
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The Republicans brought their cellphones, a significant breach given that security experts have long warned that phones can be turned into covert listening devices — even when they're off.
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Hackers envision how the devices could be used for corporate espionage and hacks, and warn that companies with trade secrets shouldn't have listening devices set around their offices.
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"Pitching these devices for people's homes is one thing, but encouraging people to wear listening devices all day is a step further," one privacy advocate told Business Insider.
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Mayoral aide George Burrell then instructed the police commissioner to sweep the office for listening devices, the wiretap was found, and a maelstrom of political rhetoric ensued afterwards.
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The fact that a man who puts Echos in everybody's home, you know, listening devices in everyone's home doesn't realize he could be easily hacked in some way.
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The ship is equipped with three towed underwater listening devices that are adapted to the depth of the search area, which is estimated to be more than 9,800 feet.
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Earbuds were all the rage at the beginning of the decade, then Beats made large headphones popular again, and now AirPods are bringing consumers back to smaller listening devices.
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The massive balloons, which were equipped with sensing and listening devices on their tail, were launched from various sites around the U.S. and Pacific — including a site in New Mexico.
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Similar to the Kimoyo beads, the listening devices used by T'Challa to communicate with Okoye and Nakia (and eavesdrop on FBI agent Everett Ross as he interrogates Klaue) feature nsibidi.
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Assange turned on an everyday machine—he has asked me not to describe it, but it was about as loud as a blender—to overwhelm any listening devices targeting him.
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People may tell pollsters they're worried about their privacy, but millions are also happily paying some of the world's most all-seeing corporations to install listening devices in their homes.
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But interest in the use of animals has changed with the development of microelectronics and miniaturization that allowed small listening devices to be put on birds and even small mammals.
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The New Zealand Herald reported that the country's Security Intelligence Service, which has a counterespionage mandate, was also involved in the inquiry and had swept Ms. Brady's office for listening devices.
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Submarines glide beneath this threat — not impervious, as underwater listening devices and enemy submarines testify, but still relatively stealthy and a backbone of any successful effort to penetrate China's A85033/AD systems.
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From 1999 to 2004, HitClips captivated the minds of budding young music lovers, and over the years, the brand ambitiously moved from basic listening devices to tiny CD players and fun extras.
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The mayor sought to cover up the scheme by deleting emails, instructing his campaign aides to do the same and sweeping his office for listening devices installed by law enforcement, the indictment said.
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It blends interviews with participants in the affair with original footage and dramatized re-enactments of Nixon's conversations, using tape recordings from the listening devices the Republican president installed in the Oval Office.
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"Given this background, it is hard to interpret your decision to help Huawei place listening devices into millions of American homes as anything other than putting profits before country," the senators also said.
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"Chinese law does not grant government the authority to compel telecommunications firms to install backdoors, listening devices, or engage in any behavior that might compromise the telecommunications equipment of other nations," it added.
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A shadowy company with a mission of "Constant Vigilance" is selling hidden cameras and listening devices to government agencies that are disguised as rocks, trees, tombstones, vacuum cleaners, and even baby car seats.
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Authorities at the U.S. Capitol conducted a "sweep" inside the room where the standoff had occurred to check for security breaches such as listening devices after the Republican protest, two sources said on Thursday.
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Minutes before Kim entered Peace House, a North Korean security team conducted a sweep for explosives and listening devices, and sprayed apparent disinfectant in the air, on the chairs, and on the guest book.
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They were found with two listening devices, and two ceiling panels in an office adjacent to that of DNC chair Lawrence O'Brien were removed, suggesting that the burglars were attempting to bug O'Brien's office.
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Three years ago, WikiLeaks published thousands of pages of secret documents about how the Central Intelligence Agency hacks into overseas targets, revealing its ability to compromise smartphones and turn certain televisions into listening devices.
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First responders had been racing to find survivors in the rubble of the 175-foot span using high-tech listening devices, trained sniffing dogs and search cameras before turning the scene over to police.
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Now the 86-year-old matriarch of the famous music family is elaborating on the supposed misdeeds in new court declarations filed Wednesday, alleging that Trent monitors her home with hidden cameras and listening devices.
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The EPA spent nearly $9,000 last year on increased counter-surveillance precautions for Pruitt, including hiring a private contractor to sweep his office for hidden listening devices and installing sophisticated biometric locks for the doors.
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Among the items were miniature cameras, concealed daggers and guns, gas masks, Berlin Wall barbed wire, miniature listening devices and all kinds of concealment devices - all the cool spy gear that made spy thrillers exciting.
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So with a worldwide network of listening devices planted on the ocean floor, you can track whale movements — if you want to listen to years of background noise and pick out the calls manually, that is.
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Still others thought the breach was a result of careless spy work including traveling the same routes to the same meeting points or meeting sources at restaurants where Chinese had planted listening devices, the newspaper said.
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He also shook his head when asked about a report of dissension within the lean and efficient team, including fears among the staff that some of the campaign's Trump Tower offices were bugged with listening devices.
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The agency has instructed parents to destroy any devices they have bought, and asked schools to be on the look out for smartwatches being used by children — and to request destruction of listening devices they identify.
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Under Mr. Hollande's government, a series of antiterrorism bills had already given French authorities and intelligence agencies ample means to procure information on suspects, including by placing listening devices in people's homes and tracking internet activity.
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Brian Fligor, an audiologist who is a member of the World Health Organization's working group on safe listening devices, advised the team on how to compare its results to data on the 22010-decibel workplace limit.
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Although there are many enhanced listening devices available to help her, such as an Assistive Living amplifier or a closed captioning screen that sits in a cup holder, she tells me they don't work well enough.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's spending came under scrutiny again on Monday as congressional Democrats said a sweep last year for listening devices in his office was poorly done and the contractor improperly hired.
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Security research into the devices—and the potential for hackers to take them over, turn them into listening devices, or use them as jumping off points to take over corporate networks—has been going on for years.
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It's certainly understandable if you've opted to disable the "Okay Google" wake word feature for battery reasons, or over rising privacy concerns around always-listening devices (the Google Mini story is only the last to raise red flags).
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While informants or undercover agents regularly use concealed listening devices to surreptitiously gather evidence for federal investigators, they are typically targeting drug kingpins and Mafia bosses in criminal investigations, not a president viewed as ineffectively conducting his duties.
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Android 10 will also include a new kind of support for professional hearing aids, by allowing people who wear listening devices to connect to the phone over a specific Bluetooth channel rather than the standard Bluetooth low-energy.
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According to Bleeping Computer, (via Gizmodo) the regulators have deemed smartwatches targeted at kids "prohibitive listening devices" and are asking parents to destroy any smartwatches their kids have and advising schools to pay closer attention to kids with them.
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"There is a fair argument that if I have installed these kinds of listening devices in my home, I don't have a reasonable expectation of non-interception," says Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Even if Amazon, Apple, and Google have the best intentions regarding user privacy, these always-on listening devices are open to abuse from government agencies, rogue software developers, and any hackers targeting the fragile security of the Internet of Things.
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Mr. Tillerson and his subordinates drew on that repertory of responses on Thursday as he visited the headquarters of the African Union, a set of soaring buildings constructed by the Chinese — and said to be riddled with Chinese listening devices.
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Like another famous American election scandal, it started with a break-in at the D.N.C. The first time, 44 years ago at the committee's old offices in the Watergate complex, the burglars planted listening devices and jimmied a filing cabinet.
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It was like a primer for Cold War paranoia: The compound is shot through with listening devices, they told me — the legacy of a 1970s diplomatic blunder in which the United States agreed to allow Soviet workers to construct the buildings.
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The leak exposes CIA capabilities and tools like unpatched iOS and Android vulnerabilities, strategies for compromising end-to-end encrypted chats (though not undermining the encryption itself), bugs in Windows, and even the ability to turn Samsung smart TVs into listening devices.
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For example, Mr. Pruitt may intend to deflect questions about why he paid to have his office swept for listening devices by noting — as the agency has before — that Lisa Jackson, who led the E.P.A. under President Barack Obama, did the same.
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The booth is part of a pattern of paranoia for Pruitt, who had his office swept for listening devices, continues to hide his schedule from the public, doesn't allow employees into his office without an escort, and has prohibited note-taking at meetings.
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A few weeks after the pool game, at the oil company headquarters, secret listening devices and a concealed video camera recorded Mr. Sechin offering Mr. Ulyukayev a gift basket that contained artisanal sausages made from wild game and a hefty brown bag.
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Researchers also found evidence that Lebanese officials had previously used FinFisher, a product manufactured by the British company Gamma International, which sells surveillance tools that let customers turn computers and phones into listening devices to monitor a target's messages, calls and whereabouts.
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And while the incident provoked unfounded speculation that the visitor could have brought sensing and listening devices into the meeting, or even planted a bug in the Oval Office, it mostly underscores the consistently careless manner with which the Trump administration regularly treats security.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Officials at the U.S. Capitol had to "sweep" a secure conference room to check for security breaches such as listening devices after Republican lawmakers stormed in to protest the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, two sources said on Thursday.
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The Vienna prosecutors' office was investigating on the suspicion that two crimes were committed - misuse of audio recording and listening devices, and secret intelligence service activity to the detriment of Austria - by persons unknown, the Justice Ministry said in response to an inquiry by Reuters.
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Reena Saini Kallat's "Chorus" (2017) is a piece modeled off pre-radar listening devices used during World War II. To subvert the original purpose of the device, which was intercepting enemy aircraft, the installation instead plays recordings of national birds of various border-sharing countries.
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While the aircraft was built by Boeing, its interior was outfitted by the Chinese government, which has equipped all of its leadership's jets since a Boeing 767 delivered in 2001 to Jiang Zemin, then president, was reportedly found to be filled with listening devices.
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The Miami Herald reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Monday abandoned a review of suspected violations of attorney-client privilege at the detention facility, which began after two civilian Pentagon attorneys quit their case after finding the listening devices.
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The leaks started soon after, even if the recordings are being closely guarded by Turkish officials, not least because intelligence services do not want to reveal whether they had placed listening devices inside the consulate, or received them from an informant whose position would be endangered.
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But commenters have noticed one hilarious issue… While Apple's tiny bluetooth earpieces are notoriously easy to lose, the internet was quick to point out that Tapper's strap essentially turns your futuristic and pricey ($159-$249) listening devices back into the original wired Apple EarPods of yore.
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The documents lay out in significant detail how agents at CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia, are capable of compromising the security of many devices, including iPhones and Android smartphones, Windows PCs, Mac laptops, and even Samsung televisions — which it can turn into remote listening devices.
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In recordings read aloud by prosecutors in a case being heard in a Moscow courtroom, two men, both Kremlin insiders, are first heard in an assiduously polite conversation recorded by secret listening devices, even as one was preparing to doom the other to a long spell in prison.
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The physicist Leon Theremin, rescued from the gold mines of Kolyma to work in one of Beria's sharashki, invented listening devices soon used to spy on the British and Americans in Moscow, for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize: Such were the twists of fortune for Stalin's scientists.
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In CIT's projected scenario, it's not just police pressuring Apple to turn on iPhones—it's law enforcement turning Amazon Echo and Samsung's smart TVs into surreptitious listening devices: iPhones and other mobile phones are not the only common consumer appliances that this Order sets a precedent for converting to surveillance devices.
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He had another point to make, though: "If the man who wants to put listening devices in everyone's home doesn't always know that everyone's always watching, I don't know who will," he wrote — on Signal, natch — alluding to the Amazon Echo device that has had its share of privacy hiccups.
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And while the hoards of security researchers poring through the documents have yet to find any actual code among its spilled secrets, it details surprising capabilities, from dozens of exploits targeting Android and iOS to advanced PC-compromise techniques and detailed attempts to hack Samsung smart TVs, turning them into silent listening devices.
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Roosevelt or her husband could suggest someone, but when no such individual surfaced, he volunteered as if there were no other reasonable choice — strapping $3,000 to his leg as he left New York, holding meetings in bathrooms with the water running to evade the detection of German spies who had planted listening devices.
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Per Politico:The NSA briefers explained that cyberspies could be using sophisticated malware to turn the personal cellphones of White House aides into clandestine listening devices, to take photos and video without the user's knowledge and to transfer vast amounts of data via Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth, according to one former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the briefings.
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On June 17, 1972, four expatriate Cubans and Mr. McCord, chief of security for the Nixon re-election campaign and a leader of the White House "plumbers" unit assigned to plug information leaks, broke into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington to fix problematic listening devices that they had planted weeks earlier.
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The following is a list, by no means complete, to begin with: All spaces should have combinations of on-grade entrances, ample seating with support, ASL interpreters, communication access real-time translation (CART), all-gender restrooms, assisted listening devices, 1:12 ramps, railings, grab bars, foot stools, temperature control, quiet spaces, closed captions, and a staff educated about service animal etiquette.
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And it would be really super bad if they'd continued to do so after receiving multiple warnings from qualified personnel, as Politico noted:The NSA briefers explained that cyberspies could be using sophisticated malware to turn the personal cellphones of White House aides into clandestine listening devices, to take photos and video without the user's knowledge and to transfer vast amounts of data via Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth, according to one former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the briefings.
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