Greetings, intrepid quizzers. Here’s wishing you all a very happy 2010!

Our question for today:

The two pictures shown above show two Italian brothers (the same two in both pictures) whose “findings” managed to shock the whole world. Using some terribly ghetto yet highly functional homemade tools they managed to intercept some very interesting conversations. Who are they, and what did they do?

One of their interceptions below:

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(Expect some static. The language is Russian)

Cracked by: Gurupad , Dibyo , shrik , p vs np , varuns88 , udupendra , malcaluffin , dheeraj , shenoyvarun86 , krudebox , xtremevarun , madhur , sidsen , Raghuvansh , prasanth , Logik , the usual audience , Rogi , Thejas V R , Chinmaya U.Holla and Mo

Answer:

Dibyo says

Achille and Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia who monitored transmissions from sputnik and explorer spaceships from some homemade underground bunker radio equipment