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In 1945, the defection of Igor Gouzenko, a code clerk at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, and Elizabeth Bently, an American courier between the spies and the Soviets, plus the knowledge that at least some of their secret cables had been decoded, led to an almost total shut-down of the espionage apparatus in the United States.
ECONOMIST: History of espionage: Dark secrets | The
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If you were a teenager in the mid 1970s and couldn't afford a Moog, a self-build Paia kit was a way to get your own synth (plus a working knowledge of soldering) for cheap.
ENGADGET: Music Thing: Paia Synth Kits
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Between the boards and the network knowledge, plus features like user ratings on the quality of ads, this is probably also a decent place to find out what real consumers think of tech products once they are deployed.
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