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US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It would certainly be detectable. You could do an X-ray, sweep the RF spectrum and see the energy disappear at the right frequency, things like that.

They had that tech in the 60s too.

Also when the bug was in operation it was definitely not passive. It was being fed by what must have been a really strong signal to power it, and transmitted the results back.