A court in Russia’s second city St. Petersburg has placed a military cadet in pretrial detention after he allegedly murdered a hearing-impaired woman whose hearing aid he mistook for espionage equipment, local news outlet 78.Ru reported on Tuesday.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

reminds me of this funny story of when the soviets made asses of the us govt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

[–] Streetlights@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Credit where credit is due, that device was sublime in it's ingenuity. It took the CIA almost 20 years to build their own!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Easy_Chair

[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

This is fascinating, thanks for the link

[–] ticho@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Next thing they'll start rounding up people who wear glasses, like some African dictator a few decades ago.