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2. Covert listening device - Wikipedia

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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, or wiretapping is a common technique in surveillance, espionage and police investigations. Self-contained electronic covert listening devices came into common use with ...

3. The Thing (listening device) - Wikipedia

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   The Thing (listening device) The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945.

4. Wiretapping - Wikipedia

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   Wiretapping. Wiretapping, also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet -based conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connection was an actual electrical tap on an analog telephone or telegraph line.

5. Radio-frequency sweep - Wikipedia

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   Portable sweep equipment may be used to detect some types of covert listening device (bugs). In professional audio, the optimum use of wireless microphones and wireless intercoms may require performing a sweep of the local radio spectrum, especially if many wireless devices are being used simultaneously. The sweep is generally limited in ...

6. Frequency-hopping spread spectrum - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Frequency-hopping spread spectrum ( FHSS) is a method of transmitting radio signals by rapidly changing the carrier frequency among many frequencies occupying a large spectral band. The changes are controlled by a code known to both transmitter and receiver. FHSS is used to avoid interference, to prevent eavesdropping, and to enable code ...

7. The best wireless earbuds for every type of listener - AOL

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   We all know the pain of untangling your headphones. It's like some ludicrous puzzle that we must solve every single day. Ultimately, it’s the curse of owning wired headphones — a fact of life ...