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Inventing Bond: Wiretapping
Patented: History of Inventions
The Beginnings of Surveillance
"It's not like Big Brother is listening to us. There aren't people sitting with headphones behind in wall cavities listening to us," he says. Archaeologists have discovered built arrangements that afforded listeners to overhear conversations dating all the way back to the BC era. "Today, its far scale is unfathomable from the perspective of even 20 years ago."
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