On Fri, Oct 1, 2021, 3:49 AM grarpamp <[1]grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

     No. Mass coverup.
     All US diplomatic stations have active electronic countermeasures
     both
     radio and ultrasound. The radio one is obvious, no need to explain
     it
     on slashdot. The ultrasound is not so well

   For people who weren't millenial geeks, slashdot was a website where,
   when something was posted, the entire internet would know and it would
   be devastatingly swamped with interested new people.  It wasn't
   literally true but is what the reference used to mean.

     known. One of the ways to
     snoop on a conversation is to shine a modulated laser on the window
     and recover the sound from the doppler shift in the reflections. It
     is
     defeated by "shaking" the window.
     What we see here is a f*ckup by whatever contractor built the system
     (a few usual suspects come to mind). Instead of drowning snooping in
     white radio or ultrasound noise it is frying the diplomats' brains.
     That is the only plausible explanation, because it has now occurred
     in
     25+ locations worldwide all of which are USA diplomatic sites. A lot
     of these were also sited in a places where it would have been
     difficulty for an adversary carrying a humongous and very
     "inconspicuous" antenna to point it at the embassy.
     Why the coverup? There are 45000 Department of State employees
     stationed overseas. Now count the payout to each of them for living
     and working in a brain fryer.

References

   1. mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com