From CNN:
From bugs to lasers to cell phones, the Vatican is on guard for high-tech eavesdropping ahead of Monday’s opening of the conclave to elect a new pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church.
Intensifying the speculation — and perhaps the taste for espionage — are the lack of a clear favorite, a media blackout imposed on cardinals by the Vatican, and the church’s tight-lipped statements on the cardinals’ meetings so far.