NSA Furby Ban At Pentagon

Around 1999, the Pentagon’s National Security Agency circulated a memo warning that Furbys, the popular electronic toys, might overhear and later repeat classified information if people brought them into secure areas. Officials treated the chattering, owl-like gadgets as potential recording devices and banned them from certain offices. In reality, Furbys did not record or play back actual speech and had no way to store conversations.

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