XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: robert.a.macy@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 05:38:31 -0700, Johny B Good   
    wrote:   
      
   >> ...snip....   
   >   
   >  So, a bunch of electronically selectable and 'steerable magnetic   
   > detector arrays' plus a shitload of electronics then?   
   >   
   >  I suppose it might be do-able today (Hell! who'd have thought we'd   
   > have microprocessor chips with transistor counts measured in hundreds   
   > of millions (last figure I saw was 135 Million nearly a decade ago).   
   >   
   >  Seems to be an incredibly 'over-engeered' solution' just to save the   
   > need to isolate the conductors to take a current measurement though.   
      
      
   My guess at material cost for using 'available' components, around $200,   
   and DSP processing at much less than $800   
      
   Well it's for people who want to do something and not be noticed doing   
   it.  Especially undetectably tapping a single phone line from 1 to 3 feet   
   away, through a wall for example, then use a short range 'retransmit' to   
   get it out without tracking the contact back to yourself. package   
   something like that in a wad of tar, so it looks innocuous, like tar   
   dripped from the ceiling onto the cabling, etc.   
      
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