The Tasmanians Have a Great Sense of Humor

Sign on hotel wall at Hobart Airport...

The Spy Who Dumped Me

Looks like a fun spy movie.
In theaters August 3, 2018.

Cell Phone Problems Predicted in 1919

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W. K. Haselden’s 

The Pocket Telephone: When Will it Ring?

Published in The Daily Mirror Mar. 5, 1919

Well, Some Young Spies Still Learn From TV

Bart purchases a mini spy camera and manages to take a picture of Homer dancing next to stripper named Princess Kashmir at a co-worker's strip club party.

He gives copies of the picture to his friends, and eventually the picture starts to circulate around until eventually Marge sees it. She kicks Homer out of the house, but the next day explains that she is not upset about him dancing next to a woman, but rather that Bart saw it.

She demands that he take Bart and go apologize to Princess Kashmir. Homer agrees and says that he is ready to start respecting women.

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

Logitech's $180 Circle 2 wired security camera is easy to set up and works with Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit and Google Assistant for a wide variety of smart home/voice control applications.

 

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Quote of the Week – Bob Woodward on J. Edgar Hoover

"FBI director J. Edgar Hoover didn’t object to Nixon’s wiretapping because it was illegal, he objected because wiretapping was his job!" — legendary journalist Bob Woodward, who spoke Thursday night to a packed house at the University of Utah’s Kingsbury Hall.

When Amateurs Spy

Headline: Wedding crasher spying on ‘boyfriend’ sparks massive bridesmaids brawl: cops



Tip: Spy Rule #1 - Remain covert.

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Spycam Darwin Award of the Week - The Creepy Kid

Jeremy Gabrysch put up a camera in their living room because his kid kept getting up in the middle of the night to watch TV.


The kid was not to be deterred, even if he didn't quite understand how a wide-angle lens works. more

Space X & Tesla - So, why not Blink & an electric car?!?!

Blink, which makes home security cameras, debuts its Blink XT1 EPV, the first car that runs on batteries, coming summer 2018.


The dramatic trailer slowly builds suspense as it unveils the sleek automobile and poses the question we've all pondered—what if a car could run on store-bought batteries?

Riddle: The Spies With Stamps on Their Heads

Problem
Three super spies are caught sending sensitive information to an enemy state. These three double agents are apprehended and taken out to a remote spot in the woods. They are told that one of them will be part of a prisoner exchange, and the other two will be executed.

To decide who lives, the guards decide to play a game. They show the captives eight stamps: four red, and four green. They then blindfold the three men and stick two stamps to each of their foreheads. One of the guards puts the remaining two stamps in his pocket.

The guards then take the blindfolds off the captives, who can each see the stamps on the other two men's heads, but not the two stamps on their own head, and not the two stamps in the guard's pocket. These spies are highly intelligent—they're perfect logicians who know they can count on each other to correctly and quickly interpret the information they have.

The guard captain tells them that the first man to figure out the color of the stamps on his own head will be used for the prisoner exchange, and the other two will be executed. If anyone guesses wrong, they will be shot dead on the spot.

The captain then asks the spies in order if they know what color stamps they have on their head. The answers are as follows:

• A: "No."
• B: "No."
• C: "No."
• A: "No."
• B: "Yes."

Spy B answers correctly. What color are the stamps on his head, and how does he know?

Hint
Don't forget about the stamps in the guard's pocket. solution

Quick, Call Guinness - “Most Wiretapped Individual” on Earth

Philippines - Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday earned a new title as the “most wiretapped individual” on earth. 

Now zipped lipped.

This title was given to her in jest by Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson before she interpellated him on the floor on the proposed Expanded Anti-Wiretapping Act.

Lacson made the remark when De Lima asked permission if he would yield to some of her questions about the measure.

Responding to De Lima’s query, Lacson said: “Gladly and willingly to probably the most wiretapped individual on planet earth.”

“Thank you for acknowledging that,” De Lima answered. more

Idiocracy (2017) - Man Tries Burglarizing a Spy Shop

FL - Police say an attempted burglar chose an odd target which was a spy shop that sells, of all things, surveillance equipment. 

According to the manager of Spy Spot Investigations Spy Store in Deerfield Beach, the would-be burglar was, no shocker here, caught on camera.

Tannenbaum said suspect was caught on one of the surveillance specialty store's many cameras as he picked up a rock and headed straight for the store's front door. more with video

Talk to Real Secret Agents on New 'Call a Spy' Hotline

If you ever wanted to chat to a spy, now's your chance – a group of German artists have set up the "Call a Spy" hotline.

Ariel Fischer from the art group "Peng!" told Sputnik Deutschland that they can set up the hotline anywhere with a stable internet connection. It looks like an ordinary telephone, but is connected to the "Call a Spy" server.

The server contains a database of spy's numbers, and randomly selects one to connect the caller with. Calls are routed through a private network that masks the original source of the call.


Fischer said that despite the secrecy of intelligence work, the majority of the numbers were freely available on the internet, and come from a range of different countries.  more

What Has More Privacy Than the Invisible iPhone Screen?

The NoPhone, of course.
 

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Spy Bugs Wrong Phones

An Australian spy earned the nickname 'fat fingers' after he incorrectly bugged multiple phones by entering the wrong numbers. 

Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security revealed the anecdote during an address at the Australian Policy Institute on Tuesday night, reported Fairfax Media.

She told the story of the time she asked a senior ASIO officer how wrong numbers had been used in multiple telephone intercepts.

'I said: 'How can this happen? There's a whole series of them here.' And the answer was: 'It's fat fingers.'

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The Cartoon You Won't See in Your Paper Today

"Today's strip that did not run in papers.
Seems harmless to me, but I guess these are sensitive times."
Stephan Pastis
@stephanpastis
Syndicated Cartoonist, Creator of Pearls Before Swine Comic Strip, 
Author of Timmy Failure book series

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Britain's Foreign Secretary Denies Office Cat is a Spy

Britain's foreign secretary Philip Hammond was forced to issue a denial after his own Conservative party colleague claimed the "chief mouser" at the UK's Foreign Office could be a European Union (EU) spy.

Palmerston, a cat that was adopted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, had been recently announced as the "chief mouser" to help tackle the problem of mice in the building in central London.

However, as the debate around Britain's membership of the EU heats up in the lead up to the June 23 referendum, a member of the camp in favour of remaining in the economic bloc told the House of Commons yesterday that those in favour of Brexitmay fear Palmerston has not been fully vetted.

"There is a serious point here. Can I ask my right honourable friend whether Palmerston has been security cleared or not... can I ask him, has he been positively vetted by the security service and scanned for bugs by GCHQ? And can my right honourable Friend assure the House –and the more paranoid element in the Brexiters - that he isn't a long term mole working for the EU Commission," Tory MP Keith Simpson asked Hammond.

The foreign secretary chose to the address the bizarre query, claiming Palmerston's attendance record had been impeccable.

He told MPs: "He is definitely not a mole. I can categorically assure my honourable friend that Palmerston has been regularly vetted." more

Art Imitates Life at AB Surveillance Solutions, LLC... well, maybe not your life.

"This House Has People In It" showcases the CCTV products of AB Surveillance Solutions, LLC in a very bizarre way...


Some things can't wait until the month ends. ~Kevin

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