I made a related comment about this in your “Underwatergate” journal entry below. This is nothing new. In the New Times best selling book “Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage” the “induction-type” coupling technology was described relating to how the underwater spies would carry out electronic surveillance. All they had to do was get the underwater monitoring equipment near anything that was radiating any electromagnetic energy. No broken wires. No physical taps! Nothing physical! No physical trespass. This was the legal justification why they could proceed with this type of operation without any oversight or reporting and this was 50-years ago. No explicit law were being broken.