The phrase "able to bug a" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone has the capability to annoy or irritate someone else, or in a technical context referring to the act of monitoring or spying on someone.
Example: "He is able to bug a conversation without anyone noticing."
Alternatives: "capable of annoying" or "able to eavesdrop on".
But when magistrates were able to bug his office, they received a mine of information about the Corleone Mob's activity – and learnt of the protection money being paid by the local businessman whose co-operation led to today's arrests.
When the bill becomes law, it will be able to bug businessmen, tap their phones, intercept their e-mails and spy on them.
Surveillance staff will also be able to bug suspects' flats with microphones and cameras and add "keyloggers" to their computers to track every keystroke.
And even when scientists are able to culture a bug, they are rarely sure of what it does in the wild.
We have been able to find a bug in one of the blocks of the design that is responsible for modulation which implementation diverts from the constellation provided in the IEEE standard specification.
If the player is able to exploit a bug that allows Mario to pass through bricks, the player can enter the warp zone by passing through the wall and the pipe to World 4-1 may instead transport the player to a stage labeled "World -1".
The Mixed and the Complete construct mapping modes were able to increase bug localization effectiveness by 8% and 18%, on average (Section 3.7).
Since structured IR leverages syntactic features of the source code, the usage of different types of program constructs may be able to improve bug localization effectiveness.
But today they've taken a bit of time to acknowledge an update to both Chrome and Chrome OS, in part because they were able to quash a big bug.
Last month NTT introduced its advanced anti-Tempest device, now this: Tokyo based tech conglomerate Taisei recently presented a new portable system that is able to detect bugging devices and hidden cameras almost instantly.
