Submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
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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You know what? My sister has early hearing loss and now wears hearing aids. I’ve never thought about it, but honestly, the modern hearing aids could absolutely be used as an espionage device. They are hardly noticeable, Bluetooth enabled, and have microphones in them. I’m sure the post in the OP was an innocent civilian, but I genuinely wonder if that’s something the letter agencies have considered and / or do with informants.
ravhall@discuss.online 1 month ago
Glad to see their cadets are real quality people. I bet their nukes are as efficient.