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by mhh__ 1568 days ago
In between the acceptance of electronic intelligence and the dawn of everything being computer based, spooks spent a lot of time inventing ways to get this kind of info from dumb sensor data.

At one point MI5 could apparently lift crypto keys from the noise of the cipher machine through a wall. Obviously being MI5 this was to spy on the French and not the Russians, but still.