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Real Life Spy Gadgets That Anyone Can Buy
Ant writes "Here is a collection of "spy equipment" found for sale around the Internet. Everything listed is completely real, is sold at online stores, and almost any item listed here costs less than $500, and often times can be bought for less than $200.
Seen on Compfused."
What do we have at http://darkcreek.com/detective_equipment/notebook. htm? A few pages with obvious products listed, but without any actual product names, links, or anything except for some google ads, in the hope that whoever reads this trash will be clicking them. What is that page trying to achieve other than ad views? Nothing. Now let's look at this 'ant' (http://aqfl.net/) guy who submits this story. His 'site' is another collection of pagerank inflating spam links. Of course by getting it on slashdot, he's going to make another few hundred $ in ad views. Is it a slow news day that you have to post trash like this to front page? Shame, taco
"... my first thought would be, 'a lot'".
These spy gadgets could be dangerous in the wrong hands, such as evildoers like terrorists, and others. It could enable these groups to murder more innocent people.
Lets hope these gadget sales are being closely monitored by the authorities. I would hate to see these things in the wrong hands.
Am I the only one that saw this thing and immediately thought of Kramer?
Each processor would proceed sequentially as if it had been better for them not to rise against Saul.
Less info than a normal Slashdot summary, lame article, lame in general. What the hell is with the compfused link?
Didn't know slashdot editors post news without reviewing the content first.
Where the hell are the price? How do I buy them?
The article is just a bunch of descriptions with google ads in them.
Thanks to the Firefox Adblock plug-in, I never saw any ads on the site. :)
dumbass
No, seriously.
We would be powerless to stop an army of one with these babies.
Luckily, the damned site is a complete waste of time and carries no links to any of the items listed.
This needs to be renamed to "Real Life spy gadgets that anyone (who has google and a lot of time to find them by themselves) can buy" Worst slashdot, ever.
Please remove this article.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
This "article" is mostly a waste of space, but the clue spray http://darkcreek.com/detective_equipment/clue_spra y.htm made me chuckle. Favorite equipment of BOFHs everywhere?
'getagrip', 'rtfa'
Interestingly, 'slownewsday' was apparently removed - it was there five minutes ago...
I used to see surveillance and security equipment, and glancing through I didn't many products that weren't available when I quit the business years ago, and certainly nothing that isn't available on any of the "spy" stores on the internet (or from a variety of electronics dealers in south east asia, if you're willing to buy in lots. :)
Reminds me of the time Peter bought that stuff from the pharmacy. You know the hillarious results that ensued afterwords.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
this is not news.
it's not interesting.
there are no links to where I can buy this stuff.
this is a sorry excuse for a website.
I'm sure this has been suggested before but articles should be modded just like comments.
It dealt with spy satellites. The narrator mentioned that the video surveillance they showed in the program was from the 1960s and 70s and said that the actual resolution and what it could detect nowadays was classified. I'm pretty sure the 1970s shots could identify cars.
Has to make you wonder, if this is what we can buy, what can the government make today?
I don't get it.
There used to be loads of adverts for bugs and so-forth in the classified sections of UK satirical mag Private Eye... haven't been any for a while now, though.
Well, the resolution isn't all that much better, since it's limited by the optical radius of the lens, and NASA hasn't figured out how to launch a larger satellite in 35 years.
However, as the digital technology advanced, they have much improved the filters for detecting and tracking tinfoil hats.
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
This was the gayest thing ever.
Well, thankfully, even military spysats STILL have to acknowledge the diffraction limit, so no face recoginition form orbit, ever (at least without a 10+m mirrror.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Well, OK, so Cold War spies killed for plenty of reasons, but what I'm thinking of is the general advances in electronic miniaturization that can put a tiny audio recorder, camera, heat sensor, pressure sensor, etc., in spaces far smaller than the equivalent device of just a few decades ago.
n osim/102-3417579-5590511?n=283155) -- the affilliate link is for LibraryThing, because that was the easiest way to grab the link - strip as you please ;)), some of the "hidden" devices from the early / mid Cold War years seem laughably huge and detectable, especially cameras larger than many current mid-range digital cameras, meant to be strapped behind ties (?!) and or shooting through false buttons in trenchcoats, etc.
Looking through my copy of The Ultimate Spy Book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0789404435/ref=
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
A bit of this would be great at one of those thousand-dollars-a-plate political fundraising dinners.
Really really must be a slow day, what a horribly shit excuse for a Slashdotting.
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OMFSM, did Slashdot just add a checkbox to my read posts? That is seriously cool.
"May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan."
Step One: Hundreds of Thousands of nerds wake up Sunday morning and click on your slashdot story. While discovering your site is bogus, a secret Firefox flaw is exploited and a (AT - Really? AT? Who the fuck uses AT anymore?) keystroke logger is installed on your computer.
Step Two: ???.. no wait.. Step two is to check your email for CC numbers as they go an order something from a real spy site to make themselves feel better.
Step Three: Profit.
Ummm... I think I'm going to go scan my computer for viruses.
'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it...
This is just a cheap shot by someone hoping to use the slashdot effect to make himself some quick bucks.
Kevin Fox
This isn't a plug for the company - but you can see there all the kinds of cameras mentioned in the article.
"It's time to take life by the cans." ~ Bender ("Bendin' in the Wind", ep. 3-13)
In other words, WW007D?
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s cu50.asp I like that it uses AAA batteries, too; a single AA would be even better than 2 AAAs, but life isn't perfect. Maybe I'll find a good deal from eBay on a U50 ...
I want a Minox B. No, I don't want to pay for an *actual* Minox; don't have enough banks robbed yet. Also, tiny film cassettes, finicky jewel-like mechanisms, etc.
What I want is a modern, digital, Minox-alike that is:
a) The size of a fat thumb or however you'd describe one of these: http://www.kameramuseum.de/1minox/minox-b.html
b) Not notably ugly and lo-res like this: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/prweb19
(The size of that thing is OK, though, but it's ugly in colors and shape; I could overlook those things, or cover all the but lens with a paper bag, if the resolution wasn't so poor.)
c) more brick-like than some of Sony's smallest, which otherwise are quite nice; I don't like the roundedness of some of the U-Series, but the the U50 (swivel and all) is close to a digital Minox. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Sony/sony_d
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
If this is the new type of article that's going to be posted after the new look /. I'd rather we all go back to the old look.
That having been said I'm sure this is just a glitch in the system. The average standard for articles here is too high to get too mad and not forgive one mistake but please, please don't do it again.
Shame on slashdot... :(
Please remove this ad.
Maybe this is a good opportunity to ask about motion detection and webcams. For those of you that have this working already, what advice can you give to someone trying to set up such a system?
What is meant by "often times" ????
The word "often" means, well, often. more than once and more often than not. The word "times" following it has no additional value or meaning and just confuses me while my brain tries to figure out if there is any other meaning than simply "often". If the word doesn't contribute to the meaning, clarity or intent of the sentence, please leave it out.
Let's hope Al-Queda uses them to make the US into a police state.
OK. That explains it. I was wondering why every one was complaining so much. The page looked admirably clean to me.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
How can these gadget's possibly be dangerous? From the article, you can't even find them. I actually think they're all just Duke Nukem Forwever ware. There are stories about them, but no actual links or pictures. Man, I also wish I could stick a Google Ad right in my comment. I'd like, make a killing, wouldn't I?
Bill
It's my Sig and you can't have it. Mine! All Mine!
Poor excuse for a /. article but where do you get the Flatulence Agent? My brother wants it. He's 60 years old and oh so juvenile.
Nowadays mobile phones with integrated cameras, I think, completely replace this kind of stuff. And some Nokia phones are about the same size as the Minox!
And portables such as the Macbook and some ASUS models have an camera. These display-integrated cameras look pretty small, so I guess that the camera without the notebook, with flash memory and a battery would be the size of a 2-3 times think CR2032 battery (the one you have in wristwatches).
But after little bit of googling i found a place where you can get some of these suckers.
http://www.spytekmiami.com/index.php
(enjoy)
http://iesucks.org
That envelope X-ray spray is just dust off. Hold the can of dust-off upside down and spray the envelope.
Doesn't work well with security envelopes, but works fine with normal ones.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
What scares me more than terrorists, is the incompetences of our government. One more attack and they will have every exscuse to take more rights away...
The content of the site was a little weak...
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - S. G. Colette
qualia 016?... but, going along with zlogic, a cell phone would be much easier to hide in plain site.
HIV Crosses Species Barrier... into Muppets
Um, what the fuck? There's a place down the street from me called "The Spy Store" where you can buy all this and body armour too.
This is lameness beyond compare.
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
when did slashdot become host to SEO spam links?
The solution is easy... report it to adsense. Google will pull their ads and cancel his account. Then when he gets hit with the hosting for being slashdotted he won't try that crap again.
this is like.. the gayest post ever
There was so called ISS (iirc) in old days, which makes OC-gas sprays to cars, and all kinds of real James Bond stuff. They had office atleast in London and somewhere in states. One of articles was for example a briefcase that allows to intercept GSM phonecalls (it establishes fake cell, and as A5 encryption was purposefully made weak by request of MI5 in 80's it's relatively cheap op to do).
Nowadays they sell most hardcore items to gov'ts only. But that stuff you can buy from either Russia or China so what's the big deal. I think remote mikes (point-mikes and laser-mikes which you can point light into somebody's window 500ft away and listen conversation) I think are still in everybodys shopping list who wish to do so.
So I think equip mentioned in above article are still quite tame. Some radioamateur builds better frequency-hopping bug for $20 that's not straightforward to trace.
Account get hacked or something? What the hell?n s Comic Book Store Guy Voice
Seriously.
Worst.
Story.
Ever.
/Simpso
//I didn't put a space in Simpsons
///stupid filter
I have that one, it's a "small" capacitor microphone.
However, it's not at all inoccuous, it's huge and the clip looks every bit like a microphone and only vaguely like a tie clip.
This is for legit, non clandestine uses only.
Plainly, the US needs no assistance from Al-Queda to achieve police state status.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Welcome to 1990 when I ordered mailers to check out pricing on most of these gadgets. /. Article link.
Site links to ads.
Profit!
Often wrong but never in doubt.
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Everyone knows me.
Perfect for carrying around with the PEBKAC mallet!!
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(Note: the inept criminals and thugs who use terrorism to kill fewer people every year than falling coconuts are obviously real. A vast shadow network of islamofascist co-conspirators is imaginary.)
Yes, it's lame. And I'll attempt to hijack this article by posting something actually useful which was rejected as a story in favor of this bullshit.
Core Force is a free (as in beer) application which provides inbound and outbound stateful packet filtering for TCP/IP protocols using a Windows port of OpenBSD's PF firewall, granular file system and registry access control and programs' integrity validation. These capabilities can be configured and enforced system-wide or on a per-application basis for specific programs such as email readers, Web browsers, media players, messaging software, etc.
Screenshots here.
Basically, the way it works by default is much like ZoneAlarm. If an application hasn't been configured, you get an alert saying "XYZ.exe is trying to access 87.65.43.21... allow/deny?" And you have the option to add it as a permanent rule. Unlike ZoneAlarm, however, it's not an all-or-nothing option. You can choose to allow only outbound port 80 traffic to 12.34.56.0/24 from source port 10431 with certain TCP flags and on the 2nd network interface if you choose.
This also applies to the filesystem. Grant read/write/execute access anywhere from an entire drive, to directories, down to the individual file level. Choose whether or not permissions propogate to child files/directories. Ditto for the registry. As the about page describes, it's a powerful firewall for not just tcp/ip, but also for the filesystem and the registry.
I ran Core Force on my old machine and it was really interesting to watch just how many times Windows phones home. After a while, I just setup default deny rules for all Microsoft IP addresses. But damn if there wasn't a ton of background communication going on for all sorts of applications. It takes a while to get the configuration right and for trusted applications that you don't want to go through the hassle of configuration everything in minute detail (eg: games where you don't want to have a popup right in the middle of fragging someone), you can just assign it full rights to the system as if you're running without Core Force.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
all ip addresses visiting the spy site will be logged and cross referenced with the owner's phone records for the last three years... when a phone company or cable rep knocks on your door and starts asking questions... be afraid... very afraid...
But since then the ability to extract additional information through software interpolation of multiple images has increased tremendously. With multiple cameras pointed at the same area, or multiple shots from a single camera, you should be able to get enough raw data to create very high resolution images indeed, even if the individual images themselves aren't that great. Use cameras at very different geographical locations, and a full 3d image should be possible.
You can also use more of the spectrum, compensate for atmospheric effects, etc.
The ______ Agenda
I love how this commercial site is using imageshack to host their images.
It was added a couple days ago, but it is just a CSS trick. By making the checkbox image part of the link, they can change the image when the link has been visited, just like the link color changes. No functionality added, it just looks nicer.
Centralization breaks the internet.
Lame article, yadda yadda.
Anyone have a link to the lockpicking kit in a working pen? That sounds actually useful.
The ______ Agenda
Does anyone know if there is a reputable and inexpensive (hard to find that combo) place to buy a working stun pen? I often drive a bus full of drunken bachelors through bad parts of town and end up staying on darkened busses in empty alleyways waiting for the groups to come back. I can't carry something as obvious as a taser so as not to scare customers, but I wouldn't mind having something concealable as a last resort defense or if I absolutely had to, to subdue a rider as a last resort?
Seems unlikely that one of these things charged on a triple a battery could generate both the voltage and current necessary. AAA bats are what 1.5 volt 750mAh for a NiMH- wouldn't imagine you could get much amperage at 500kV? On second thought, it's what, 1/4 amp that will kill you? What is the desired amperage to incapacitate anyway? I was under the impression that the voltage in and of itself wasn't so much the incapacitator as it is the frequency of a modulated open AC line?
Anyway, bottom line is I don't know much, do these things work?
Even a few more attacks in the west would give American politicians power they can hardly dream of today. Their ineptness and inability in the face of such opportunity is astounding. It seems the best the politicians can do is gut and undermine any sensible security precautions, and then wait and hope for some thug or criminal to do their work for them.
You can also buy the spy cam on thinkgeek :)
The James Bond's perfect tools.
Big brother is watching you..
Yes, god forbid Al Qaeda get their hands on fart powder. Not even George W. "Cowboy" Bush could save us then! :-O
The article summary is taken directly from the front page of the website, with no citation...
Not to be too picky, but if he's going to post something like this he could at least think of his own summary for the site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
It could enable these groups to murder more innocent people.
I, for one, was very disappointed at the lack of gadgets that you could use to murder innocent people and/or terrorists. Where are the cigarette blow-guns, laser-beam wristwatches, and poison-gas lapel pins? All this is is a bunch of cameras and audio recorders... they sell this stuff at Radio Shack!
If this is what our spies have been reduced to, then I'm hardly surprised they're getting their butts kicked by international terrorists. Why, you could barely take on ninja assassins with that stuff!
Your cheapo image shack hosting has turned over and died. Might be time to change the water for those JPGs.
Specialization is for insects. -Heinlein
Government satellites regularly capture images at 1-meter resolution (I've seen many such images) and I think as high as 0.25-meter resolution is possible. (Any higher-resolution images you see online, like on Google Maps, were usually acquired by an airplane, not a satellite.)
Keep in mind, though, that the satellites with this kind of resolution are in fast-moving low Earth orbit and can only capture high-resolution images at near-nadir angles. So it's not possible to capture, for example, continuous video of an area at that resolution. With several satellites all coordinating, you could perhaps image each area once an hour on average.
Remember, the higher the resolution, the lower the coverage (in both space and time). NASA captures medium-resolution (250-m) images that provide global, daily coverage of the entire Earth. DOD captures on-demand high-resolution images of specific, carefully chosen targets but miss the rest of the world.
My site doesn't have any ads. Show me ads in the sources to prove it.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
A Windows port of pf is a big deal. If they're running one of the more recent versions, load balancing and failover management are core features. And of course the robustness is what you'd expect from the OpenBSD team.
I don't think anyone outside the porn industry needs the "hidden screw camera", but haven't you ever wished you could flood a meeting with that substance listed under "chemical aids", namely the Clue Spray?
Check all the major "blog" news sites. A lot of them are constantly running fluff articles these days just to keep fresh content on their front pages. There's a finite amount of stuff out there that's actually worth posting on a given day, and I'd rather have no updates than two lame ones.
This mo'money mentality is going to destroy internet advertising again.
http://minoxusa.xxs3.de/minox2002usa/shop/
The website explains a bit about the products, fails to give details on pricing/ordering but what use would we have for them if they're only effective in real life?
OK, OK -- that one I'd forgotten about when I posted :) However, at that price, while Yes, it is What James Bond Would Carry (at least possibly), it's more expensive than the *actual* Minox B, which was developed as a general purpose camera before it was coopted into espionage use by both sides in the Cold War ... makes me want to see more stuff from the same designer, whose name escapes me for the moment. Strange, I'd always thought it was Swiss, but turns out the Minox came from Latvia ...
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
A pox on your x-ray glasses.
I'm still waiting for my sea-monkeys.
Sam:
The trouble is, the current digitals from Minox all seem to be mediocre rebranded cameras -- nothing like the clean, engineered look of the classic slimline Minox B. Even the 35mm cameras from Minox have all been pretty stylish. Leica's blown a good chance to exploit positive feelings toward that brand name by slapping Minox on some pretty bad cameras. Some of these don't even have expandable memory!
Ah well, too bad.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
abort the mission...they have spy tech!
I do not accept czechs.
www.spycatcheronline.co.uk My favorite is the bullet proof denim jacket
meridian at tha.net
Here here . . . I'm using Adblock Plus with the Adblock filterset.G updater extension to continuously update known ad url's. Seriously, the internet the way it's supposed to be if you ask me.
naaa - they exist. Do a google search and you'll find someone willing to sell them. top of my list were www.spylife.com and www.spysupplystore.com which look like real stores/suppliers. But yeah - crappy crappy article
I don't know about you, but if I used that fart elixer on someone, I'd be the first one to burst out laughing.
Spy gadgets? No.
These are for practical jokes!
There: Something at a specific location.
Their: Owned by someone.
Please make sure your english compiles.
You seem to be confusing life with Star Trek. Careful...
I know somebody who had access to those photos in the late '60s. He could recognize his own car in the parking lot. In shots of Soviet tanks, he could even tell which tank commanders had shaved that morning.
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