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The “Thing” The Great Seal Bug.

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Behind Designs

Behind Designs

Күн бұрын

WW2 & Cold war weapons and spy gadgets were truly amazing! Have you ever wondered about the history of RFID and how it works? It was originally developed and first used as a Soviet cold war spying device. The Thing or The Great Seal bug as it was known, sat on the wall of a US ambassadors office for 7 years completely undetected listening into American secrets. The technology behind this revolutionary device now resides in your pocket in the form of Radio Frequency Identification. or RFID. Thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed and supported the channel so far.
Music Credits Lord of the dawn - Jesse Gallagher
Maestro Tlakaelel - Jesse Gallagher
Research, Script, Voice Over, Animations, 3D Modelling, Rendering, Editing. - Me

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@JackaWilko
@JackaWilko 3 жыл бұрын
So glad I've found this channel. I've never heard of the Windscale Disaster, or this, they're both incredible subjects. Thank you for bringing us something fresh, love the content!
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!
@thomasmleahy6218
@thomasmleahy6218 Жыл бұрын
The radioactive by products the UK has dumped in the ocean for years, processing nuke fuel into Plutonium and producing Highly Enriched Uranium. France, also has been dumping radioactive by products into the Atlantic from their processing plant located near the ocean. For Years, since the '50s and '60s. Millions of gallons.Radioactive.
@agtheboy
@agtheboy 3 жыл бұрын
This chanel is the most under subscribe in youtube. There are chanels with 1 mil+ subs that pale in production quality compared to this
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I really appreciate that. Hopefully someone from YT sees your comment and pushes me up the recommendation list!
@kaycey7361
@kaycey7361 3 ай бұрын
The discovery channel made a documentary about KGB and CIA gadgets of the era. I was a school kid back then. 1997 or 98. It fascinated me.
@ThatRandomGamer_Main
@ThatRandomGamer_Main 3 жыл бұрын
The animation looks really good.
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Cheers, glad you appreciate the work, they took forever to render out!
@TheJuanvisu
@TheJuanvisu 3 жыл бұрын
Nice video, you should have more subscribers All of your videos are very well made :D
@DJRD555
@DJRD555 3 жыл бұрын
This should be on Nebula
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Nebula have a recommendations page on their website so feel free to recommend me! watchnebula.com/suggest
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, I’m sure they will come, hard work always pays off..
@ManualGaming
@ManualGaming 3 жыл бұрын
You seriously deserve more subscribers, old sport. Initially I thought I was watching a KZfaqr that I assumed would have 500k+ subs. I really hope your channel kicks off because this is really some quality stuff.
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! The hard work is starting to pay off.
@RohanTej
@RohanTej 3 жыл бұрын
@@BehindDesigns And rightfully so!
@Atomic_Haggis
@Atomic_Haggis 3 жыл бұрын
I just discovered your channel when searching for documentaries on The Thing. Very well presented content and you've got a new subscriber as a result.
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad to have you along..
@volvok7749
@volvok7749 3 жыл бұрын
Incredible video, thank you!
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@louiswinspear1036
@louiswinspear1036 3 жыл бұрын
this channel deserves so much more recognition
@dedy__5622
@dedy__5622 3 жыл бұрын
i can not beleve you have just 4k subs you deserve at least a milion
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Cheers, maybe one day!
@DopamineMVWM
@DopamineMVWM 2 жыл бұрын
You need to make more videos! this channel has so much potential!
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, working on a new video at the moment, its heavy on the 3D side so taking longer than I would have liked but should be up soon! Really apreciate the support!
@andrejdjukanovic8138
@andrejdjukanovic8138 3 жыл бұрын
This channel is like The Balkan Powder Keg. At any moment, this channel will blow up!
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Hopefully! Cheers for the support
@DJRD555
@DJRD555 3 жыл бұрын
Came to the latest video after watching the british chernobyl one just to say. This channel won't stay on 1.96k subs for long..
@fiddley
@fiddley 3 жыл бұрын
It had better not! It's such a good channel with fantastic production quality. We are lucky the algorithm chose us to be early!
@SpiderPig42
@SpiderPig42 3 жыл бұрын
I can easily see this being up there with Real Engineering and Engineering Mindset! I love this channel!
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks all! Seem to be getting some good viewership now!
@fxchampuseu4655
@fxchampuseu4655 3 жыл бұрын
Mate you deserve so many more subs and views than this, your content is amazing
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Cheers, I’m sure they will come if I concentrate on quality over quantity
@aliasreco
@aliasreco Жыл бұрын
Thanks for simple but efficient and fast explanations!
@MrHarmonizr
@MrHarmonizr 5 ай бұрын
Fascinating, thank you.
@riley_tech
@riley_tech 3 жыл бұрын
Just realized the thumbnail has a typo! "Undetctable". Also, loved the video! Can't wait for more!
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
And a Gold Star for you! Thank you for spotting it. By the time it comes to making a thumbnail for the videos I've spent so much time making the video I’m ready to throw the computer out of the window...
@CaptainX2012
@CaptainX2012 3 жыл бұрын
@@BehindDesigns lmao I feel that on a smaller scale. I made a small video a while back, and after I spent a while rendering it I noticed a minor typo in the final info screen. I just ignored it.
@MachiningandMicrowaves
@MachiningandMicrowaves 10 ай бұрын
Super CGI modelling, absolutely love it! Wasn't the carving presented at the Yalta conference on the morning of 9th Feb 1945 when Beria invited Harriman and the British Ambassador, along with Stalin's interpreter to the 20th anniversary of Artek camp, 18 km up the road from Yalta? I wonder where the idea that the transmitter or receiver could be in a van came from? I know from practical experience just how finicky the kit is to set up. A centimetre of movement wrecks the signal completely. They were housed in some apartments over the street in Spasopeskovskaya square, with the transmitter and receiver in different locations. Women were paid to drape washing on the balconies to divert attention from the activities. Transmit power used was a few watts at most, at around 950 MHz, using a homodyne receiver with a sniff of the transmitter as it's own coherent local oscillator. Hard to see how that could interfere with any VHF TVs, at least until the advent of UHF broadcasting in the 1970s. Termen wasn't imprisoned on his return at the end of September 1938, but in March 39, after confessing to some wild allegations about remote radio triggering of an explosive device to assassinate Kirov. The British army radio op (possibly within the British Embassy over the Moskva river from the Kremlin) who heard American voices was almost certainly listening to a different bug that then disappeared, prompting the US to start looking for other possible sources within the Chancery and Spaso House. I wish I'd seen your vid before I was on BBC2 TV with Prof Hannah Fry. Funny as well that the BBC insisted on the connection with RFID, where the technology actually uses near field load-pull signalling rather than the far-field re-reradiation like the Great Seal Bug and EASYCHAIR Mk1. There's a lot of disinformation about the Bug, finding hard evidence is difficult. Excellent vid, I'm going to check out more of your stuff and subscribe
@oscarpeters5309
@oscarpeters5309 3 жыл бұрын
just found your channel, and surprised at your subscriber count considering the quality of your videos! i'd expect a channel like this to have subs in the hundreds of thousands, i hope to see you flourish in the future!
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the kind words! As you say hopefully the channel will grow in the future, so stay tuned!
@williamfelipebermudez
@williamfelipebermudez 11 ай бұрын
Thank you
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 11 ай бұрын
Welcome!
@FireStarter13O7
@FireStarter13O7 3 жыл бұрын
Your content is fantastic. I'd love to see more British history!
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Working on it!
@mr.randomgamer888
@mr.randomgamer888 3 жыл бұрын
Well Mark me impressed, came here from The windscale video and I am definitely a fan, hope to see you get to 100k before this year ends!
@TMAJ0R
@TMAJ0R Жыл бұрын
This video is too good to have so few views
@willbrown423
@willbrown423 3 жыл бұрын
Keep with the quality over quantity, your vids tell me more than I would have learned in my daily life, could your next vid possibly be about maybe Be about the space race or the the submarine red October, there is a lot of stuff that we never learn about in school that happened in the cold war in America
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, two good subjects I’ll look into it! Thanks for the support.
@hombrezmendez9775
@hombrezmendez9775 3 жыл бұрын
Was recommended the nuclear video, great videos on this channel! 👍🏼
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying the content.
@appleprince3943
@appleprince3943 3 жыл бұрын
i genuinely thought it said 3.8 million subscribers, good videos bro
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! 3.8m! Maybe one day long in the future but that’s the aim!
@willbrown423
@willbrown423 3 жыл бұрын
Great informative and relaxing vids
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks buddy
@frequencywatchers
@frequencywatchers 4 ай бұрын
Imagine In Future (YOU ARE THE WALLET)
@Trickynickymarts
@Trickynickymarts 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video and the last part seems even more pertinent these days. We should all beware the Trojan horse and whatever benefit is given for chips in people, don't fall for it. Just one thing that surprised me though at 3.57, was that not Concorde rather than a Russian plane?
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment! And agree about these Tech giant trojan horses. The plane shown at 3.57 it’s the Russian Tupolev Tu-44 the Russian version of the Concorde, or Concordski as it was named by the west. It looks almost identical (go figure) apart from two small winglets that sit just behind the cockpit windows.
@yesman6559
@yesman6559 3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment algorithm boosts!
@BrianSu
@BrianSu Жыл бұрын
Amazon doesn't use RFID in their stores to track everything. There are loads of normal items like bottles of mineral water that aren't tagged at all.
@mr.brytside6358
@mr.brytside6358 Жыл бұрын
I have a great seal coin
@mytuberforyou
@mytuberforyou Жыл бұрын
There's a video on KZfaq from a guy who machined a working model of this, and this video actually does a better job of describing the device, is there a CAD model somewhere and detailed theory of operation?
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns Жыл бұрын
Thanks! I built the model myself using reference imagery.
@deker0954
@deker0954 Жыл бұрын
​@@BehindDesignsmaybe they found it right away and left it there. Or it was likely that everyone assumes they are being spied on and deliver false information.
@JonosBtheMC
@JonosBtheMC Жыл бұрын
3:25 Dr Who theme, which as every fan knows did NOT use a Thermin.
@korb9664
@korb9664 3 жыл бұрын
This guy kinda sounds like he's recording at 3am and he dosen't want his parents to hear it.
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Correct with 3am, but it’s not my parents, it’s my kids!
@jksynth
@jksynth 7 ай бұрын
Not over
@arturallay8116
@arturallay8116 Жыл бұрын
I will subscribe
@locklear308
@locklear308 Жыл бұрын
Why they would accept and hang up ANY gift from the enemy is just beyond me.
@TheOneWhoSometimesSaysOk
@TheOneWhoSometimesSaysOk Жыл бұрын
It wasn't an enemy back then.
@locklear308
@locklear308 Жыл бұрын
@@TheOneWhoSometimesSaysOk LOL, dude... You can't be serious.
@CptDavis
@CptDavis Жыл бұрын
This is the 1st bluetooth
@RickyJr46
@RickyJr46 5 ай бұрын
Could Averell Harriman have been complicit in "The Thing" caper?
@1974UTuber
@1974UTuber Жыл бұрын
They did not use a Theramin for the Doctor Who theme. Derbyshire used tape loops to create the otherworldly soundscape, not a theremin as is often assumed. Each note was individually created through manually manipulating analogue tape - cutting, splicing, speeding up and slowing down segments
@therealzilch
@therealzilch Жыл бұрын
Amazingly elegant bug. Too bad that so much ingenuity is spent on conflict.
@antoniusxenopoulos1054
@antoniusxenopoulos1054 Ай бұрын
Just ask about mind reading using similar principles. Nowadays the technology has evolved to scary levels
@nonparticipant4671
@nonparticipant4671 2 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice that Master Mason handshake at 0:37. It kind of looks like Truman, (a known Mason) figured he was being recorded and took his hand away. Not that just shaking hands with someone is wrong, but when it's the President, I would think discretion would be better.
@jsl151850b
@jsl151850b Жыл бұрын
3:23 I know that you had to include an audio clip of the Theremin in use, but I'm not sure if this Dr. Who recording actually used one.
@vlads.
@vlads. 3 жыл бұрын
you do the 3d modelling yourself? very interesting, blender user? :p
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I do everything myself (why each video takes so long to make!) I use Rhino 3D to model and v-ray to render. I’ve used rhino 3D for 15 years professionally so am very comfortable with it...
@vlads.
@vlads. 3 жыл бұрын
@@BehindDesigns ah thats really cool, thoroughly enjoy the videos, your time doesn't go unwasted! can I ask what you did for your job?
@prestonpeery6819
@prestonpeery6819 2 жыл бұрын
RFID chip inside my body, no thanks. Good & very interesting video though.
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah an internal RFID chip might be a step too far. Thanks for watching.
@SolarWebsite
@SolarWebsite Жыл бұрын
Country has a mathematical genius, that may build a highly advanced listening device for them. Soviet Union: in jail you go, produce something amazing Pretty much all other countries: hey, want to make some money? Can you build us this?
@StevioGaming1
@StevioGaming1 3 жыл бұрын
Class wee channel you got here mate, you'll make it big one day. Just keep going, you've earned a sub. Won't be long before you can quit your job and live off KZfaq 😂
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yes doing this full time would be interesting but that’s a long way down the road! Cheers for the support.
@shadowripper6128
@shadowripper6128 6 күн бұрын
i still have to laugh when i hear that the us bugged themselves, everytime i hear it i have to laugh 😂 😂 and that we now cary a listening device everywhere
@edmccloskey9696
@edmccloskey9696 3 жыл бұрын
Wonderfully great channel.. Interesting, polishes and eclectic... Well done Ser... I.l be sure to share... U should get a Twitter account.. Ever in Frankfurt beers on me.....
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I’ve spent some time working in Frankfurt, it’s a great city m. If I’m ever back there I’ll be sure to take you up on the offer!
@dickstab
@dickstab Жыл бұрын
n tesla made wireless powered systems even radios that need no power and receive power from the radio signal itself. they use to give plans for such radios in the 30s so seems like they would have thought that someone would make a bug out of this system already.
@eranthys
@eranthys 8 ай бұрын
Crystal set radios don't require battery. Anybody can make such a radio. I also made one when i was 13 yeras old.
@thomasmleahy6218
@thomasmleahy6218 Жыл бұрын
Does this have relevance in the mysterious ailments claimed by American nationals working for our government in foreign countries.
@KarldorisLambley
@KarldorisLambley 8 ай бұрын
it really irritates me when people say SAM missiles. it is like HDD drive. redundant and daft.
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 7 ай бұрын
Very true, or like D-Day
@KarldorisLambley
@KarldorisLambley 7 ай бұрын
@@BehindDesigns CD disc.
@andrews1078
@andrews1078 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if a similar device was used on US embassy staff in Cuba?
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
I think there must be hundres of these, just sat in random bits of furniture and behind walls all over the world!
@T2D.SteveArcs
@T2D.SteveArcs Жыл бұрын
I don't care if the government is spying on me via my cell phone A I don't do anything spy worthy and B I'm not giving up my phone so they can spy all they want, I enjoy my trojan horse too much 😅
@fiddley
@fiddley 3 жыл бұрын
KZfaq keeps deleting my comment but what I want to say in regards to this is the same as Guy Ritchie scripted in Snatch regarding Boris the Blade. If you know, you know. ;-)
@robertbennett9949
@robertbennett9949 Жыл бұрын
It was the Soviet Union.....not Russia.
@jasonluong3862
@jasonluong3862 Жыл бұрын
Did Theramin get the royalty from his invention?
@MachiningandMicrowaves
@MachiningandMicrowaves 10 ай бұрын
He licenced the Thereminvox patents along with a lot of other instruments to RCA for $100k in the early 30s and made very significant sums, but most of it ended up as money-laundered funding for OGPU/NKVD operations. He was a director of another business "Teletouch" working on alarm systems for US prisons and lots of other interesting stuff. All the while working on industrial espionage for the Soviet intelligence services. He also held a lease on a dance studio (his wife Lavinia Williams was a principal dancer at the Negro Ballet along with Al Bledger)
@diekritischestimme
@diekritischestimme Жыл бұрын
Good video, but your praise for RFID technology is a little bit naive. This stuff is going to destroy privacy even more.
@locklear308
@locklear308 Жыл бұрын
Agreed, privacy is seriously being ignored now days... on purpose...
@nerumsargon3573
@nerumsargon3573 Жыл бұрын
😂🤣😅 7 years to late lool
@KarldorisLambley
@KarldorisLambley 8 ай бұрын
this video was useless. what frequency did the device use? you told us no detail at all.
@BehindDesigns
@BehindDesigns 7 ай бұрын
I don’t think the frequency is integral to the story but noted
@KarldorisLambley
@KarldorisLambley 7 ай бұрын
@@BehindDesigns i wish to say sorry for calling your vid useless. i had had a bad day, but you didn't deserve it. i'd hardly watch a useless vid to the end. and i appreciate you replying politely to a not very nice comment.i suppose i forgot that, unlike the BBC, there is a single person behind these vids. once again, sorry.
@samuelfellows6923
@samuelfellows6923 Жыл бұрын
⚠️-🤬
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