Spying on the US with hacked cardboards

Hiding behind a minority owned supplier, China sold the US Army thousands of folding cardboard boxes. The price was right, the distribution far and wide. Only that each cardboard was fitted with a minimal audio-sensitive chip that powered itself up with the WiFi energy in the room.

Whenever such a box would be taken from storage to a meeting room, the hidden chip will kick-start and listen. All the secret matters discussed in the rooms were recorded (low resolution but decipherable). These spy chips have been part of a "swarm protocol" that migrated the captured voices into an external communication port connected to the Internet, from where it went to Beijing

For years China was the 'fly on the wall' in the most sensitive meetings of the US Army until they in one instant acted on listened-to information so quickly that Marlene Leipzig became suspicious. Using Samuel Soul's spyware she launched an investigation.

What developed next is laid out in the sequel to "The Cipher Who Came in from the Cold". Stay tuned!

"The Cipher Who Came in from the Cold" through all its sequels, published or otherwise, are pivotal analytic tools for national security (innovationSP.net/qstory).