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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."
Thanks to the Firefox Adblock plug-in, I never saw any ads on the site. :)
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.
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. :)
Considering the title itself implies the purchase of said things, one might conceivably think the page would have the links to purchase them.
And instead of actually doing any real research the poster simply ganked a bunch of product shots from the spy shop online, I'd say on a scale of one to awesome, this rates: toast.
But after little bit of googling i found a place where you can get some of these suckers.
http://www.spytekmiami.com/index.php
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qualia 016?... but, going along with zlogic, a cell phone would be much easier to hide in plain site.
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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.
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.
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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.
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