via John Jay College...
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the reasons that national security
investigations of possible terrorists and those working for foreign
agents fell sharply last year, says a new government report.
Far fewer
targets underwent secret surveillance, according to NPR. The
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act empowers the FBI to monitor the
communications inside the United States of people suspected of being
agents of a foreign power. more
'Tiger King' star Jeff Lowe claims Carol Baskin, husband Howard were spying on his property with drones. Howard Baskin denied snooping on the 'Tiger King' star in a statement to Fox News.
The "Tiger King" star further claims that when he went to confront a film crew that appeared to be filming, Baskin and Howard bolted and Lowe ended up in a scuffle with one of his neighbors, who was allegedly with the film crew.
Lowe’s
neighbors – a couple – ran away when confronted but the neighbors' son
allegedly got in a tussle with Lowe, the gossip site reported Lowe told
them of the incident on Tuesday. more
You want a Bird Buddy? It’s a smart bird feeder that notifies you via an app when a feathered friend has approached the vicinity.
The in-built camera turns on, records and takes pictures of the wee thing as it pecks away at the bird seed. And you can get your kicks as you watch it and take pictures on your phone.
The team behind the Bird Buddy says it captures their photos and organizes them in a “beautiful collection that is easy to view and share." more
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The regulations, which were released and took effect on Monday, come amid deepening hostilities between China and some western governments, including over the detention of foreigners accused of national security crimes.
According to state media,
state security will work with other government departments to “adjust”
the list of groups susceptible to foreign espionage and to develop
measures to safeguard against it, including Chinese Communist Party and
state organs, social groups, enterprises and public institutions. more
In 1967 the cult classic TV series, THE PRISONER, came bursting onto the screen. The series, about an unnamed British intelligence agent who awakes to find himself trapped in an idyllic seaside village, was not only an instant hit with viewers at the time, it went on to be watched and re-watched obsessively by fans, quickly gaining cult status.
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Users will be able to scan the nearby area for any SmartTags that don’t belong to them but that are moving along with them. This feature could be a big win for safety, providing an easy way to make sure that nobody’s tracking you with a tiny SmartTag that they slipped in your backpack, purse, coat pocket, etc. It’s a nice feature if you’re concerned about the privacy or security implications of Tile-like tracking devices. more
via Rick Hoffmann...
I am sorry to report the passing of Sergio (Sarge) Borquez at
approximately 4:30 a.m. on April 20, 2004. Sarge died of heart
failure.
For those who did not have the pleasure of knowing him, Sarge
was one of
the early TSCM professionals. He joined the Drug Enforcement
Agency
shortly after separating from the U.S. Army where he served with
the 101st
Airborne (if I recall correctly) during the Korean Conflict.
While with
the DEA he studied technical surveillance and became a
specialist. At one
time Sarge was in charge of providing technical surveillance in
the 7
western states. He was also responsible for installing the DEA's
very
first wiretap. There is a photo of Sarge climbing a telephone
pole to
reach the ready access boot to install the tap. It is a
terrific picture.
Sarge was a humble man who did not discuss his exploits with
many
people. I am privileged to have known him, and to have benefited
by his
instruction. He will be missed by all who knew him.
A loner installed a listening device to eavesdrop on neighbours and altered crossbow darts to make them more lethal before launching a “carefully planned, premeditated” attack, which killed a council worker and seriously injured his pregnant girlfriend...Before shooting Ms Sugden in the head, he told her he’d been listening to them for a year - which was later apparently confirmed by the police's discovery of a listening device with a microphone fixed to his living room wall. more
They found a listening device with a microphone next to his book case which he had used to eavesdrop on the couple's conversations through the wall, Hull Coroner's Court heard...Coroner will call for ban on crossbow sales... more
The video footage showcases clips from cameras installed by homeowners for security reasons or others secretly installed by ill-intentioned people in hotels, fitting rooms and beauty salons.
You don't have to be a victim. Learn how to spot spycams.
ID - Deputies have arrested a Jefferson County man for allegedly using a home security camera to secretly record a woman and a teenage girl in the shower. Daniel J Hendrickson, 38...told a Jefferson County Sheriff’s detective his “stupidity” and “curiosity” led him to place a wireless camera in a bathroom to record the woman and the teenage girl. more
Singapore - While at a church camp, he heard a woman showering in the toilet and took a video of her. The 20-year-old, who was 16 at the time, kept and watched the video repeatedly afterwards. He also took voyeuristic videos of three others - at an MRT station, a school toilet and a school canteen. more
UK - A consultant radiologist who was twice convicted of voyeurism after hiding his mobile phone to film women in toilets has been struck off the UK medical register...he admitted to covertly filming people using the restroom at his places of work as well as at his family home. more
Canada - Shawn Nickerson, a former basketball coach,
has been sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to 32
charges – including voyeurism...Through the years Nickerson used a handful of “spy cameras” hidden in
washrooms and changerooms to record unsuspecting boys – often when
naked. There are 21 known victims. Nickerson took the images he captured to the dark web where...the images where “traded like cards.” more
FL - A South Florida restaurant employee is behind bars accused of taking video of a customer who was using the bathroom. more
UK - Business owner Scott Ennis secretly filmed her in the bedroom, recorded her work conversations with a hidden microphone and deployed a member of his staff to spy on her. Louisa Ennis had no idea what was going on until she spotted a mystery device showing up on her wi-fi router and discovered it was her husband’s spy camera. more
Canada - Al Young, a long-time real estate agent and property manager from New Minas, N.S., was charged with voyeurism after a modified mirror was discovered in a building bathroom at the Blomidon Terrace in Wolfville, N.S.... Police say it was an elaborate set-up. more
Japan - Nagano Prefectural Police have arrested a civic employee for Nagano City over the alleged trespassing into a female acquaintance’s residence... According to police, his purpose for entering was to retrieve a hidden camera that he had planted inside two days before. more
WA - A Trilogy employee reported to the Walla Walla Police Department that Rosales had an iPad Pro tablet recording in an office restroom when he asked her to go into the restroom and try on two shirts while not wearing a bra. The employee later said in a statement to investigators that the request from her boss was ostensibly to give an opinion if the T-shirts being sold as part of a fundraiser were too “see-through” to be appropriate. more
Japan - Police have arrested a 28-year-old female high school teacher and her 29-year-old ex-boyfriend on suspicion of violating the child prostitution and pornography law after they took voyeuristic images of girls in the changing room at a hot springs facility in 2016. more
UK - Female nudists demand new security measures on Brighton naturist beach after men were caught secretly taking photos. more
MI - A Michigan man has been arrested after police say he was caught on a hidden camera poisoning his co-worker's water bottle with anti-freeze. more
FL - A former Tampa teacher has pleaded guilty to more than 300 counts of video voyeurism after being accused of secretly recording 124 students and an adult teacher undressing over a two year period. Mark William Ackett, 52, taught fashion design and coached girls track at Bloomingdale High School. more
OH - The suspect facing voyeurism charges has turned himself in. Armani Martin, 21, is the suspect in an investigation into someone recording people inside business bathrooms, according to Fairfield Township police. Martin is being charged with voyeurism, police say. more
UT - Jarom Brown, an adjunct instructor in the theater department, stepped down after police arrested him on charges of voyeurism and harassment. Brown released a video of the two engaged in a “romantic encounter” in hopes of exoneration but was instead arrested on several counts of voyeurism and harassment. Sue claims that in both the photo and the video she was entirely unaware she was being recorded. more
WA - A Whatcom County man is suspected of using a camera disguised to look like a cellphone charger to capture video and images of four children between the ages of 12 and 17 undressing, using the bathroom and showering. All four victims were known to the man. more
You don't have to be a victim. Learn how to spot spycams.
The court’s unanimous decision reverses the Fourth Appellate District’s opposite interpretation from 2019 that the law applies only to nonparties and does not forbid those on the call from recording each other without consent.
California’s penal code Section 632.7 makes it a crime to record or intercept a phone call “without the consent of all parties.”
This was the basis for a 2016 lawsuit by Jeremiah Smith, who claimed the loan provider LoanMe Inc. recorded him without his consent during an 18-second call in violation of Section 632.7. more
You can say that the gun looks like a toy at best, especially with that ridiculous scope, but from the descriptions of the American senator Franck Church, the weapon is scary, to say the least, even to today’s standards.
The CIA needed a weapon to take care of the targets on their blacklist without living any sort of trace that would bring up suspicions in the media. One of the hot targets was Fidel Castro, the Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976. Killing people from a distance was the go-to choice, but every bullet can be traced back. Getting too close to the target would risk the agent being compromised.
This is why the CIA gave the task of creating a new secret weapon to Mary Embree. Embree started working at the CIA as a secretary in the audio surveillance department. With time she got promoted to the technical services department where she was asked specifically to research a new poison that would induce a heart attack on its victim but undetectable in a post-mortem verification.
The technical team came up with a gun that would shoot poisoned projectiles that would dissolve inside the target and induce a heart attack which would be undetectable upon post-mortem. Embree wasn’t able to confirm if the gun was used to assassinate someone, but she did confirm that animals, as well as prisoners, were used to test the weapon.
To explain the strange scope on top of the weapon, besides being a pistol, the gun had had the ability to shot the poisoned projectile from 100 meters with good accuracy, hence the scope. more
Kevin Wayne VanLuven, 59, was arraigned on charges of aggravated indecent exposure and malicious destruction of property under $200. Bond was set at $2,500 cash or surety.
The charges
stem from a March 12 incident in Oxford Township, when homeowners asked
to have their property inspected at request of the buyers. A nursery
camera detected movement, the news release said, so the 22-year-old
homeowner checked her phone and caught VanLuven in the act. After he
finished ... he returned the doll to its original place,
the release said. more
The value placed on the development of the stolen technologies is $119.6 million. Other affected companies include Azko-Nobel, Dow Chemical, PPG, TSI, Sherwin Williams and ToyoChem.
Two actions could have stopped the theft or lessened its impact:
Using the smartphone’s camera to copy documents and workspace is a throwback technique of espionage days of old, when miniature and subminiature cameras would be used to copy documents from within restricted spaces. more
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