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."

Comments

What the hell is wrong with this article

[timecop]

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

Re:What the hell is wrong with this article

[rivetgeek]

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.

Lets Hope Al-Queda Doesnt Get Their Hands On This

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Peephole Reverser!

[Achra]

Am I the only one that saw this thing and immediately thought of Kramer?

Re:Peephole Reverser!

[rednip]

Pee-hole reverser?
I can imagine a million uses for such device...

Pesonally, I could only imagine one, but at a million places.

Re:Peephole Reverser!

[kenthorvath]

Actually a peephole reverser is quite easy to make. In most hotels, for instance, the peephole to your door is made of two tubes that thread together. Simply unscrewing the hole from one end allows you to remove it, and when placed head to head with another peephole will allow you to see inside unobstructed. I discovered this once at a hotel that I stayed at when the construction crew had dropped one in the hallway. It's pretty nifty, but the field of view is only a few degrees, so unless the object of interest is standing directly in front of the door, you are not going to see much of the inside.

lame

[johnny cashed]

Less info than a normal Slashdot summary, lame article, lame in general. What the hell is with the compfused link?

Re:Blatant advertisement

[jsharkey]

Thanks to the Firefox Adblock plug-in, I never saw any ads on the site. :)

Adsense made the internet retarded.

[rivetgeek]

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.

Re:Adsense made the internet retarded.

[PhxBlue]

Worst slashdot, ever.

You think it's bad now, wait until you see it again in a few hours.

SPAM

[Lord Bitman]

Please remove this article.

Nothing new here...

[Wdomburg]

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. :)

slow news day?

[MBuhrow]

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.

This reminds me of a Discovery Channel show I saw.

[rob_squared]

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?

Am I on Slashdot?

[q3ctf4]

This was the gayest thing ever.

Update the Definition

[simrook]

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.

My constant question: where's the digital Minox?

[timothy]

In other words, WW007D?

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/prweb195 316.htm

(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_ds 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 ...

timothy

Re:Private Eye

[ettlz]

Personally, I'd rather collect bladed weapons over stuff like this.

You weren't the dude who surrendered that bloody great bat'leth to the Police in the recent knife amnesty, were you?

Shame on slashdot...

[Anonymous Coward]

Shame on slashdot... :(

Please remove this ad.

Not /. Worthy

[Dj-Zer0]

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)

Envelope X-Ray

[GigsVT]

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.

Re:My constant question: where's the digital Minox

[morcheeba]

qualia 016?... but, going along with zlogic, a cell phone would be much easier to hide in plain site.

make Windows more secure than Linux

[nacturation]

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.

Re:This reminds me of a Discovery Channel show I s

[cgenman]

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.

Re:Lets Hope Al-Queda Doesnt Get Their Hands On Th

[Stealth Potato]

Yes, god forbid Al Qaeda get their hands on fart powder. Not even George W. "Cowboy" Bush could save us then! :-O

Some useful ones

[Beryllium Sphere(tm)]

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?

Re:Stun Pen?

[dbIII]

Does anyone know if there is a reputable and inexpensive (hard to find that combo) place to buy a working stun pen?

Near the start of the novel "Snow Crash" there is a portion about the foolishness of having high tech weapons that few people can recognise - eventually you have to use them because you certainly can't tell them to keep away or you'll hit them with a bleedingly obvious axe handle.

Where to get this kind of stuff from...

[meridian]

www.spycatcheronline.co.uk My favorite is the bullet proof denim jacket