Opposition parties and Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina (TIBiH) have filed criminal charges against the Serb member of the tripartite Bosnian state presidency member Milorad Dodik, whom they accuse of illegal wiretapping based on his own statements.
The charges were filed after Dodik told the parliament in the mainly Serb entity of Bosnia, Republika Srpska, on May 20 that he often listened in to telephone conversations between representatives of the opposition parties, saying it was normal practice.
Dodik stated that he was eavesdropping on the representatives of the
opposition by phone, that every government was eavesdropping on the
opposition, and he recounted the content of telephone conversations of
opposition members... more
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Sunday, May 24, 2020
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The Crazy Story of How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters
After tens of thousands of fruitless X-rays, a technician noticed a small coil of wire inside the on/off switch of an IBM Selectric typewriter. Gandy believed that this coil was acting as a step-down transformer to supply lower-voltage power to something within the typewriter. Eventually he uncovered a series of modifications that had been concealed so expertly that they had previously defied detection.
A solid aluminum bar, part of the structural support of the typewriter, had been replaced with one that looked identical but was hollow. Inside the cavity was a circuit board and six magnetometers. The magnetometers sensed movements of tiny magnets that had been embedded in the transposers that moved the typing “golf ball” into position for striking a given letter. more
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
The Crazy Story of How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters
Every engineer has stories of bugs that they discovered through clever detective work. But such exploits are seldom of interest to other engineers, let alone the general public.
Nonetheless, a recent book authored by Eric Haseltine, titled The Spy in Moscow Station (Macmillan, 2019), is a true story of bug hunting that should be of interest to all.
It recounts a lengthy struggle by Charles Gandy, an electrical engineer at the United States’ National Security Agency, to uncover an elaborate and ingenious scheme by Soviet engineers to intercept communications in the American embassy in Moscow. more
Nonetheless, a recent book authored by Eric Haseltine, titled The Spy in Moscow Station (Macmillan, 2019), is a true story of bug hunting that should be of interest to all.
It recounts a lengthy struggle by Charles Gandy, an electrical engineer at the United States’ National Security Agency, to uncover an elaborate and ingenious scheme by Soviet engineers to intercept communications in the American embassy in Moscow. more
Thursday, December 26, 2019
World's Smallest Video Camera (unfreakinbelieveable!)
This company in Taiwan has been reducing the size of video cameras year after year. I would like to say this is the smallest possible, but they continue to surprise.
If you have privacy concerns caused by the flood of covert video surveillance cameras, stop by here and learn how to fight back.
If you have privacy concerns caused by the flood of covert video surveillance cameras, stop by here and learn how to fight back.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Phone Phreaking - The Next Frontier - Elevator Eavesdropping
Next time you’re in an elevator, be advised that someone – besides
building security and fellow elevator riders – might be listening.
A recent Wired article
exposed the hidden world of elevator phreaking. By calling an unsecured
elevator phone, a third party can expose a person, and potentially an
enterprise, to a major security and privacy risk.
Since elevator phones
don’t require anyone to pick up the phone to open the circuit, a third
party can make a call and be connected – allowing them to eavesdrop on
conversations happening inside the elevator.
Given the competitive
nature of industries like banking and technology, it isn’t completely
unthinkable for a hacker to eavesdrop this way. more
I know of a hotel in Miami which has bugged elevator—the one nearest the Boardroom; located on the Conference Floor level.
But, if bugged elevators aren't freaky enough, eavesdrop on elevators that talk! ~Kevin
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Granny Was A Spy
UK - In 1999, an 87-year-old British woman held a press conference in front of her home to announce that for nearly four decades, she’d worked as a spy for the Soviet Union.
In fact, Melita Norwood was the Soviet Union’s longest-serving British spy...
In 1979, she and her husband—who knew about her spying and disapproved—visited Moscow so the Soviet Union could award her the Order of the Red Banner (she accepted the honorary award, but turned down the financial reward).
How did Norwood get away with it for so long? more
In fact, Melita Norwood was the Soviet Union’s longest-serving British spy...
In 1979, she and her husband—who knew about her spying and disapproved—visited Moscow so the Soviet Union could award her the Order of the Red Banner (she accepted the honorary award, but turned down the financial reward).
How did Norwood get away with it for so long? more
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Cops Spying on Cops, the Village President & Spycamer's in Crawlspaces
IN - A second lawsuit has been filed against New Carlisle alleging command staff in the police department secretly recorded private conversations... The five plaintiffs claim that Deputy Police Chief Brian Thompson and Chief Calleb Dittmar allegedly secretively “placed, or caused to be placed,” recording devices in the ceilings of non-essential areas of the department. more
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IL - Former Hinckley Chief of Police Kimberly S. Everhart has been charged with eavesdropping and official misconduct after Illinois State Police say she illegally recorded a conversation with the village president in 2017. more
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GA - A Catoosa County man is facing a handful of privacy invasion charges after he allegedly broke into a Ringgold residence and planted monitoring equipment, police say.
According to the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office: Samuel David Townsend, 32, of 103 Parkview Drive in Ringgold, was arrested March 7 on charges of first-degree burglary, possession or sale of an eavesdropping device, unlawful eavesdropping, and Peeping Tom.
...resident reported suspicious sounds coming from underneath her home.
The victim said she was getting out of the shower when she heard a sound coming from the house’s master bathroom. The woman claimed she initially thought a mouse was in the home, but that the noise got louder almost like something was being cut...
...a white truck parked out on the street in front of the home and that the crawl space at the back of the house was open...
Sheriff Gary Sisk said Townsend did some work at the home in the past, and that he planted a recording device. more
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IL - Former Hinckley Chief of Police Kimberly S. Everhart has been charged with eavesdropping and official misconduct after Illinois State Police say she illegally recorded a conversation with the village president in 2017. more
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GA - A Catoosa County man is facing a handful of privacy invasion charges after he allegedly broke into a Ringgold residence and planted monitoring equipment, police say.
According to the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office: Samuel David Townsend, 32, of 103 Parkview Drive in Ringgold, was arrested March 7 on charges of first-degree burglary, possession or sale of an eavesdropping device, unlawful eavesdropping, and Peeping Tom.
...resident reported suspicious sounds coming from underneath her home.
The victim said she was getting out of the shower when she heard a sound coming from the house’s master bathroom. The woman claimed she initially thought a mouse was in the home, but that the noise got louder almost like something was being cut...
...a white truck parked out on the street in front of the home and that the crawl space at the back of the house was open...
Sheriff Gary Sisk said Townsend did some work at the home in the past, and that he planted a recording device. more
Thursday, January 17, 2019
CIA Spy Tool Kit (Preparation H suggested)
The CIA Rectal Tool Kit
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Royally Bugged - The CInderella Syndrome
Meghan Markle’s estranged half-sister Samantha Markle is reportedly living in fear, claiming that her house is bugged.
Markle’s status as a British Royal is reportedly wreaking havoc on her paternal family members, at least according to her half-sister. On Tuesday, Samantha, who recently compared Prince Harry to a hamster, claimed on Twitter that her house is bugged and someone is watching her.
“To the morons sitting in the van running a mobile router to tap my phone, close your zippers, your shrinky dinks are visible," she wrote on her private account, according to Cosmopolitan, making good use of a classic GIF of Joey from Friends.
Although she failed to state who she believes is watching her, she did claim that this is not a one-time occurrence, as her previous home had reportedly been bugged as well. more
Markle’s status as a British Royal is reportedly wreaking havoc on her paternal family members, at least according to her half-sister. On Tuesday, Samantha, who recently compared Prince Harry to a hamster, claimed on Twitter that her house is bugged and someone is watching her.
“To the morons sitting in the van running a mobile router to tap my phone, close your zippers, your shrinky dinks are visible," she wrote on her private account, according to Cosmopolitan, making good use of a classic GIF of Joey from Friends.
Although she failed to state who she believes is watching her, she did claim that this is not a one-time occurrence, as her previous home had reportedly been bugged as well. more
Friday, September 7, 2018
Downer of the Day – Paranoia Is Now a Best Practice
Bust out the tinfoil—the data security crisis is worse than you ever imagined...
he 2010s will be remembered as the first decade in which we, the people, paid for the pleasure of welcoming Big Brother into our lives.
When George Orwell depicted an inescapable surveillance state — telescreens in every room monitoring every move, recording every sound, and reporting it all to the authoritarian leader — in his classic novel 1984, he probably never imagined that in 2018, folks would pay $600 (plus a recurring monthly fee) for the privilege of carrying a telescreen in their pockets. more
Buy yours now.
he 2010s will be remembered as the first decade in which we, the people, paid for the pleasure of welcoming Big Brother into our lives.
When George Orwell depicted an inescapable surveillance state — telescreens in every room monitoring every move, recording every sound, and reporting it all to the authoritarian leader — in his classic novel 1984, he probably never imagined that in 2018, folks would pay $600 (plus a recurring monthly fee) for the privilege of carrying a telescreen in their pockets. more
Buy yours now.
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
"New" Theory on the Cuba / China Sonic Headaches
The mystery illness afflicting American diplomats in Cuba and China could be a side effect of bugging or surveillance rather than a sonic weapon attack, according to a US researcher.
Dr Beatrice Golomb, professor of medicine at the University of California San Diego, said the reported symptoms strongly matched the known effects of radio frequency and microwave radiation.
“Surveillance is my lead hypothesis, as opposed to something like attacks or weaponry,” said Golomb, whose research will be published in the journal Neural Computation on September 15. more
Security Scrapbook fans already knew this might be a botched spying attempt, and how it worked, back in August 2017. ~Kevin
Dr Beatrice Golomb, professor of medicine at the University of California San Diego, said the reported symptoms strongly matched the known effects of radio frequency and microwave radiation.
“Surveillance is my lead hypothesis, as opposed to something like attacks or weaponry,” said Golomb, whose research will be published in the journal Neural Computation on September 15. more
Security Scrapbook fans already knew this might be a botched spying attempt, and how it worked, back in August 2017. ~Kevin
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
136 Old NSA Security Posters
In the 1950s and 1960s, the NSA made a bunch of posters to remind its employees that security is the most important thing, and that they must work hard to protect the country’s most important secrets.
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by the transparency site Government Attic, we can now see these quaint, sometimes hilarious, but also menacing, posters.
Here are all the 136 posters the NSA released. We’ve chosen a few that we thought were the best ones. Some of them are cutesy, some are kind of lame, others are dark and dystopian, and others are straight up incredible. more
Don't it just give you, "The locking pneumonia and floppy-copy flue."
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by the transparency site Government Attic, we can now see these quaint, sometimes hilarious, but also menacing, posters.
Here are all the 136 posters the NSA released. We’ve chosen a few that we thought were the best ones. Some of them are cutesy, some are kind of lame, others are dark and dystopian, and others are straight up incredible. more
Don't it just give you, "The locking pneumonia and floppy-copy flue."
Monday, February 5, 2018
TSCM, or This Smells Characteristicly Moronic
Pakistan’s security agencies have not found anything suspicious in Chetna Jadhav’s shoes that were confiscated by the Pakistani agencies...
Sources said that Pakistan’s agencies minutely examined her shoes, searching for spying devices.
However, nothing could be found and Pakistan is now likely to attribute this “incident” to an over-enthusiastic security official...
Sources said that the Pakistan Foreign Office was having a hard time dealing with the “concocted” tale of Jadhav’s wife carrying a spying device in her shoe, as it was not being able to answer the questions of local journalists who were asking about the nature of the “spying device” allegedly recovered and why details of the same were not being shared with them. more
Give them a break. Perhaps they misinterpreted the acronym written inside the shoe. TSCM and TGIF look somewhat similar, but TGIF stands for Toes Go In First.
Sources said that Pakistan’s agencies minutely examined her shoes, searching for spying devices.
However, nothing could be found and Pakistan is now likely to attribute this “incident” to an over-enthusiastic security official...
Sources said that the Pakistan Foreign Office was having a hard time dealing with the “concocted” tale of Jadhav’s wife carrying a spying device in her shoe, as it was not being able to answer the questions of local journalists who were asking about the nature of the “spying device” allegedly recovered and why details of the same were not being shared with them. more
Give them a break. Perhaps they misinterpreted the acronym written inside the shoe. TSCM and TGIF look somewhat similar, but TGIF stands for Toes Go In First.
Monday, January 22, 2018
"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.
Friday, January 12, 2018
Top Ten Unusual TSA Finds of 2017 & 2016
Imagine what went on before the days of airport security checks...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Revenge Spycam Shooting Gets Shooter Shot
GA - Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney David Cooke said Thursday a man was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to burglary and spying on his ex-girlfriend.
Cooke said Blake Herman, 35, of Macon broke into his ex-girlfriend's home on Jones Road and planted a camera in her bedroom as revenge for her breaking up with him.
When Herman returned to his ex-girlfriend's home to remove the camera, her brother caught him and shot him thinking Herman was about to pull a gun.
The camera fell out of Herman's pocket during the ordeal, according to Cooke. more
Cooke said Blake Herman, 35, of Macon broke into his ex-girlfriend's home on Jones Road and planted a camera in her bedroom as revenge for her breaking up with him.
When Herman returned to his ex-girlfriend's home to remove the camera, her brother caught him and shot him thinking Herman was about to pull a gun.
The camera fell out of Herman's pocket during the ordeal, according to Cooke. more
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Seoul Trained Trackers, or Party Police Bugged
South Korea - One maintenance office of a Seoul apartment complex is in hot water after it took its investigation into noise complaints one step too far.
According to residents and security personnel, during a recent five-day period, the maintenance office dispatched security guards to investigate the source of excessive noise among suites on floors 9 through 15 in one building. The guards, deployed from midnight to three in the morning on the apartment corridors, were armed with sound amplifying equipment.
“Throughout the course of the investigation, I ended up listening to the conversations of the residents in each suite, even though I didn’t want to,” one security guard said. “Problems of excessive noise should be resolved through legal and appropriate means, but I think that using a sound amplifier that can result in an invasion of privacy is taking things too far.” more
According to residents and security personnel, during a recent five-day period, the maintenance office dispatched security guards to investigate the source of excessive noise among suites on floors 9 through 15 in one building. The guards, deployed from midnight to three in the morning on the apartment corridors, were armed with sound amplifying equipment.
“Throughout the course of the investigation, I ended up listening to the conversations of the residents in each suite, even though I didn’t want to,” one security guard said. “Problems of excessive noise should be resolved through legal and appropriate means, but I think that using a sound amplifier that can result in an invasion of privacy is taking things too far.” more
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Spying Using Acoustic Imaging Via Smart Devices
A team of student hackers have demonstrated a method for using music to turn smart devices into tools for spying. The system is based on sonar, and embeds an inaudible signal into songs played on a smartphone or TV. The system can then use the device’s microphone to listen to how the signal bounces, and track the movements of anyone near the audio source.
The University of Washington research team behind the technology, known as CovertBand, tested it using a 42-inch Sharp TV in five different Seattle homes.
They found that the method is able to track the physical movements of multiple people to within 18 centimeters of accuracy, and even differentiate between particular gestures and motions. The tech can also track people, though less accurately, through walls.
They also demonstrated that listeners couldn’t distinguish between songs containing the hidden sonar signals, and those without it. ...and all CovertBand needs to work is a speaker and a microphone. more
The University of Washington research team behind the technology, known as CovertBand, tested it using a 42-inch Sharp TV in five different Seattle homes.
They found that the method is able to track the physical movements of multiple people to within 18 centimeters of accuracy, and even differentiate between particular gestures and motions. The tech can also track people, though less accurately, through walls.
They also demonstrated that listeners couldn’t distinguish between songs containing the hidden sonar signals, and those without it. ...and all CovertBand needs to work is a speaker and a microphone. more
Friday, July 21, 2017
Eavesdropping Comes Out of the Closet – Gets Job as Reality Show
There are some people who love to eavesdrop — they can't help themselves. Then there are others who not only love to listen in, but also have a strong case of schadenfreude and take pleasure in the hardship of others. For these special individuals, there's a podcast that will be their newest obsession: Where Should We Begin.
Couples therapist and author Esther Perel hosts this addictive series, and it's better than reality TV, because you know these drama-filled conversations aren't scripted. During each session, strangers can listen in on private therapy sessions with the psychologist from Belgian. Although the names and identifying characteristics are left out, everything else is fair game in the episodes. more
Couples therapist and author Esther Perel hosts this addictive series, and it's better than reality TV, because you know these drama-filled conversations aren't scripted. During each session, strangers can listen in on private therapy sessions with the psychologist from Belgian. Although the names and identifying characteristics are left out, everything else is fair game in the episodes. more
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