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Yes, the NSA really did ban Furby from its premises in 1999 (feddit.uk)
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In case you were wondering, yes, GCHQ banned them too. This incident also led to one of the funniest FAA papers ever.

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The original mic was not a czn-15e, but yes, in modern repairs, you can drop that one in. It did not exist in 1998. You still haven't provided anything concrete, and I wish you would so we could be putting even amount of effort into finding the facts instead of you insisting something, and then me looking into it only to be a dead end. Since you claim to repair them, can you show me the wiring diagram of where newly recorded information is stored, and how that functions?

The talkboy is a different product, in price, size and design. So no, it wouldn't have been profitable for the creator to put actual recordability into them with a not-yet-invented microphone when people were already convinced otherwise (apparently, yourself included, even when I've provided the creator's own words, and a wiki page outlining exactly how to get them to respond, because they didn't record anything and were preprogrammed). You're gonna have to try harder than that, and provide evidence if you want people to believe the disproven (more than 25 years ago) claim that you are making.

Why did the NSA drop this ban if they were recording new data? Are they stupid?

Are you going to keep avoiding my question about concrete details?