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The Physics of Eavesdropping: Nation-State Listening in 2026

The CIA's Operation Acoustic Kitty—surgically implanting microphones into cats to spy on Soviet diplomats—seems absurd in retrospect. But it reveals something crucial: in 1965, the engineering constraints were so severe that serious people debated wiring up a cat. Today, those constraints have largely vanished. This episode explores the actual state of nation-state remote listening in 2026, separating what's been demonstrated in research labs from what's confirmed operational deployment. We cover laser microphones bouncing off windows, acoustic side-channels that recover keystrokes from…

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