There's also this from several decades earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

The Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Léon Theremin, best-known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.

lmfao i'm pretty sure the image you're looking at is a reproduction of the original for display in a museum and am a bit surprised that i need to have this conversation, but here we are

I'm guessing (hoping?) their comment was being facetious.

From the HN guidelines:

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

I failed to notice the word microwave in the article. I even searched the text and "micro" was not to be found.

Edit: nevermind, not from the Guardian article.

It actually does directly mention microwaves:

> The Russian security services were also known to flood the U.S. embassy in Moscow with electromagnetic radiation. They would beam concentrated microwaves and electronic pulses at the Embassy in an attempt to eavesdrop on U.S. typewriters and conversations.

You're not talking about TFA are you?

Ah my mistake, that was from badcede's article at the top.