Post #4073667
2026-07-24 21:37 UTC
In the "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there aren't microphones everywhere" category, Trent Park, a mansion bugged from top to bottom that was used to house (and monitor) captured Nazi commanders, is now a museum in London.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/arts/design/trent-park-spy-museum.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0FA.1H9c.xpI3-LLc26tW
They did the same thing (at Farm Hall, a different mansion) with Nazi nuclear scientists. One of the first things they recorded was the scientists dismissing the possibility they were being listened to. "The British aren't that clever".
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@mattblaze@federate.social 2026-07-24 21:41
The surveilance nerd in me wants to know if captured Nazi prisoners of war have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and if the FISA court would have granted a warrant.
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@oclsc@mstdn.ca 2026-07-25 00:25
@mattblaze@federate.social They obviously hadn't read as much Len Deighton as I have, possibly because none of it had yet been written.