The USDA has a security warning on their web site about... bugs in hotel rooms!No, not the little critters who eat crops, the little critters that eavesdrop.
...from the USDA web site...
"It is sometimes said that 'All hotel rooms abroad are bugged for audio and visual surveillance.' Of course it is not true that all of them are bugged, but a great many are -- especially in major hotels frequented by foreign business and government travelers.
To maintain an adequate level of security awareness while conducting business abroad, you must operate on the assumption that your hotel room conversations are being monitored. If you are an active target who is known to pick up local women, you could also be filmed by a concealed camera.
The goal of surreptitious monitoring may be to learn your business or negotiating strategy, identify your local contacts, assess your vulnerabilities, or obtain evidence that can be used to accuse you of improper activities or to pressure you to cooperate..." (more)
Overview of the Threat
"A bug is a device placed in an office, home, hotel room, or other area to monitor conversations (or other communications) and transmit them out of that area to a listening post. Other listening devices work from a distance to monitor communications within a room without actually having a microphone or transmitter in the room.
Thanks to an explosion of miniaturized technology, the tools for bugging and other forms of eavesdropping have never been cheaper, smaller, more powerful, or easier to come by." (more)
Eavesdropping Methods
"Eavesdropping equipment varies greatly in level of sophistication. Many off-the-shelf spy shop devices are generally low-cost consumer electronic devices that have been modified for covert surveillance. They are easy to use against unsuspecting targets but can be detected by elementary electronic countermeasures.
Devices produced for law enforcement and industrial espionage are more expensive, more sophisticated, and more difficult to find during a technical security countermeasures (TSCM) inspection.
Devices designed and built for intelligence services are still more expensive and very difficult to find." (more)
Detecting and Preventing Eavesdropping
"Never try to find a bug or wiretap yourself. ... A Technical Security Countermeasures (TSCM) survey, also known as a 'sweep,' is a service provided by highly qualified personnel to detect the presence of technical surveillance devices and hazards and to identify technical security weaknesses that could facilitate a technical penetration of the surveyed facility." (more)
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