Inventing Bond: Wiretapping
Patented: History of Inventions
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The History of Bugging
The invention of the transistor after World War II enabled devices like the detective phone to get a lot smaller and to operate remotely. This is the invention of what we now know as bugging. The idea here is that this is covert. You would hide the microphone somewhere. That's a miniaturization. It does seem to be just human nature. When he was a kid, I remember at my school, there was a staff room where the teachers would go... We were really naughty.
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