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Most Merciful
Use of Spy Cameras and Snooping Devices in
A Collection of Articles,
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freely give”.
- Matthew 10:8 :: New American
Standard Bible (NASB)
1 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers
of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their
parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without
love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
5 having
a form of godliness but denying its power. Have
nothing to do with them.
6 They
are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil
desires,
7 always learning but never able to acknowledge
the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is
concerned, are rejected.
9 But
they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their
folly will be clear to everyone.”
- 2 Timothy
3:1-9 :: New International Version (NIV)
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be left alone
– the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by a free people
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Raman, B. (Monday,
http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper212.htm
…but, in many countries, it is illegal to use
them clandestinely against another person in his or her house or office.
Only the FBI can mount a sting operation. No private individual, not even a journalist,
can.
"Individuals, any and all entities must and shall
comply with all applicable local, state, federal laws and regulations before
performing or engaging in any recording, covert surveillance or any
transmission of radio frequencies.
Be aware of your local laws prior to using ANY covert
devices.
…but in
Despite the legal safeguards in the US, there have been
growing complaints of the misuse of such covert equipment not only by private
individuals, but also by the law enforcement agencies, resulting in a violation
or distortion of the rules of natural justice and particularly of the basic
constitutional or legal guarantee that no person can be made to incriminate
himself by using force or deceitful means.
Sting operations could be mounted only against persons against whom
some evidence of criminality already exists and a sting operation is considered
necessary for getting conclusive evidence.
Permission for sting operations must be obtained from
appropriate courts or the Attorney-General. This safeguard has been laid down since those who mount a
sting operation themselves commit the offences of impersonation, criminal
trespass under false pretences and making a person commit an offence.
The Supreme Court has ruled: "The first duties of
the officers of the law are to prevent, not to punish crime….”
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Sharon, Meghdoot. (
http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/20001118/ina18007.html
Eve-teasers murder father for protecting daughters
MEGHDOOT
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AHMEDABAD, NOV 17: There are no tears left anymore. For Seema, Anita and Rekha, who saw
their father tortured and killed before their eyes last Tuesday, all that
remains now is shock and grief, etched into their lives forever.
Santram Upadhyay,
47, had objected to his daughters being harassed by two youths
who were his neighbours and paid with his life.
In their one-room house at Premnagar
slum in Amraiwadi, the girls are huddled together,
numbed by the tragedy that has struck them. Their elder brother Rajesh arrived
from Mumbai only yesterday. Their mother, Shantidevi,
is still in a state of shock. She keeps staring at his picture, in between
breaking into uncontrollable sobs. Rekha, the eldest
daughter studying in class X, suddenly breaks the silence. ``My father died trying to save our honour. The sad fact is the whole `basti'
watched him being clobbered to death but no one helped.''
Their ordeal goes back longer. An employee of a
private security firm in the city, Santram, along
with his wife Shantidevi and three daughters, used to
live in the Premnagar slums. For the past few months,
the girls had been subjected to constant harassment by two youths, who stay just across
their house.
On Tuesday too, Santram
returned home from work around
Family members said a quarrel took place after which Santram threatened the youths that he would call a cousin
residing at Hatkeshwar to teach them a lesson.
Santram had reached the end
of the lane, when the two brothers and a cousin rushed behind him with sticks
and pipes and attacked him. Santram, whose skull had
been smashed, was rushed to L G Hospital where he died on Wednesday morning.
``My father had tolerated this for long. He got enraged
that night when they called him a `hijra' who could
do nothing even as they teased us,'' said Rekha,
adding that their problems began some months ago.
``When we attempted to study, they would blast the music
system at full volume throughout the night,'' she said. Her sister added,
``They would bring their friends here and all would recite `shayris',
adding our names in between lines.''
``They had threatened my father earlier too when he had
attempted to stop them from harassing us,'' said the third daughter.
The two brothers, their father and cousin who have been named
as accused are absconding. Their house, located exactly opposite that of Santram's, is locked.
Santram had approached Amraiwadi police a few months ago after a quarrel between
the two families. He had stated in his complaint that Dinesh
and Rajendra were harassing his daughters and when he
had objected, they had threatened him with dire consequences. However, no action
was taken.
Though the Amraiwadi police
station is less than half a kilometre from the place
where Santram was murdered, the police arrived
after the accused had fled.
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Shiel, Fergus. (
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/26/1032734276334.html
Cyber stalkers to be jailed for up to 10 years
By Fergus Shiel
Law Reporter
Cyber stalking is to be made a crime under Victorian law
punishable by up to 10 years' imprisonment.
And the law covering all forms of stalking is to be extended
to cover stalking even where the victim is not aware that the offence has
occurred.
Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls confirmed yesterday
that new legislation outlawing online stalking would be introduced early next
month.
"That means that if a person is stalked in a chatroom; if they are stalked by e-mail; if they are
stalked on the Internet, it will be illegal," Mr
Hulls said.
"We think that it is important that the evil of
stalking itself is made a crime whether or not the victim has been harmed," he said.
"That occurs with the law of threat to kill at the
moment, whether or not the victim is aware of the threat and we believe the
stalking laws should be extended to that extent."
The Law Institute has endorsed the new law of cyber
stalking, but opposes removal of the requirement that is central to existing
stalking legislation that harm or apprehension of fear actually occur.
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Reference
Swami, Praveen. (Mar. 31 -
http://www.flonnet.com/fl1807/18071340.htm
COVER STORY
The surveillance scene
A run-down on currently available surveillance and
counter-surveillance technologies and their applications, in the context of the
Tehelka operation.
PRAVEEN SWAMI
SPIES, unlike Tehelka's team of journalists, would not really have needed
to enter Defence Minister George Fernandes'
home to find out just what was happening there. Using equipment available off
the shelf, such as long-range parabolic microphones and shotgun microphones,
they
could have picked up conversations sitting in a hotel room 1,500 metres away, even through a 50 cm thick wall. Each time Fernandes picked up a cordless or cellular telephone to
speak to officials, electronic devices costing just a few thousand dollars
would have allowed the spies to listen in. And if they were
equipped with state-of-the-art emission detection equipment, the spies could have
read
each line of text typed out on the computers at the Defence Ministry.
Encryption, code-making and code-breaking are all part of
modern surveillance and anti-surveillance practices.
Tehelka's sting operation has
shaken up
In the world of modern surveillance technology, the
miniature cameras used by Tehelka lie at the bottom
end of the scale. Spybase, an online surveillance
technology vendor, sells products like the VidLink
100 video transmitter system for as little as $39 9 (about Rs.18,800). Fitting
into any object the size of a cigarette box, the VidLink
transmits video signals from its miniature camera up to 1.6 km away,
where
they can then be recorded on tape. An amateur version of the VidLink is available for just $1 79 (about Rs.8,400) and
allows for video transmission over some 250 m. High resolution systems are also
commercially available. U.S.-based Communications Control Systems (CCS) sells a
video camera fitted in a pen, with a lens just 3.6 mm in diameter, which can record colour images in just 0.5 Lux of
brightness.
Systems like these have been widely used abroad, both by journalists and law-enforcement organisations, as well as for commercial espionage. A corporation might, for example, record the payment of bribes to politicians in order to prevent them from reneging on an agreement. Miniature cameras and video transmitters, concealed in devices as diverse as desktop clocks, electrical plugs, door knobs or even hollowed-out books, are routinely used to monitor employees in rooms where sensitive information is kept. Despite a fair level of information on such surveillance methods being available, criminals continue to be caught on camera. The producers of a recent British Broadcasting Corporation programme used covert cameras to blow the lid of trafficking in eastern European women. Police forces routinely use cameras fitted inside car radio antennae to keep suspects under surveillance. "All this is seen as essential equipment," says security equipment dealer Ajay Gupta, "not as expensive toys."
Why, then, have we not seen explicit images of corruption
and narratives of scandal emerge from elsewhere in the world? The simple answer is
that these techniques will not work in developed countries. Any office or home
where sensitive material is stored, or secrets are discussed, would be protected
with modern counter-surveillance devices that would detect any electronic
intrusions. One major counter-surveillance tool consists of systems
that can detect any transmissions, through a full range of 5 mega hertz to over
4 gigahertz. The minute a covert camera is turned on, for example, the
counter-surveillance equipment would detect its activation. Users would also be
alerted to the presence of any audio or video transmitter concealed in fixed
devices planted inside a room. Kits are available to detect the covert use of
audio and video recorders.
State-of-the-art equipment can feed false signals to
those listening in, allowing images of bribe-taking, for example, to be
replaced with innocuous footage. Other technologies exist to alert users that their
telephones are being tapped. CCS' B-411, for example, monitors telephone lines for any
changes in the electrical parameters, of the kind caused by transmitters,
extension phones, or even plain tape recorders. The B-411 then generates a
masking tone that makes eavesdropping difficult. Devices to prevent other kinds
of surveillance are again available commercially. Audio jammers, which generate random noise, are available for
around $100, and provide a high level of protection against microphones
and tape recorders. Each jammer can protect
conversations taking place within a 100 square metre
room. Special shielding equipment is available to protect rooms
from microphone surveillance.
Organisations in advanced countries,
official and corporate ones, go to extraordinary lengths to protect their
secrets. Telephone, fax and e-mail correspondence is, for instance, routinely
encrypted. This provides users of counter-surveillance technology another layer
of defence should their systems fail to alert them to
bugs. A variety of devices are commercially available, ranging from cheap
gadgets that distort voices, to full-scale encryption equipment. Anyone
listening in to an encrypted telephone or radio conversation would hear only
gibberish. Sadly, very few Indian establishments use encryption routinely.
While the Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) have
secured some key voice and fax lines, many communications, including satellite
telephones, remain unencrypted. That means anyone armed with a
frequency scanner, or even just some copper wire, screwdrivers and ingenuity,
can listen in to sensitive conversations.
New technology can resemble science fiction. Since the
early 1980s, the intelligence community has been discussing technologies to
protect the surveillance of emissions from computer monitors and printers.
Technology
exists to read this kind of text from up to 3 km away, using the electronic
emissions generated by computers. The
EVER since espionage began, code-breakers have been
constantly at war with code-makers. Any technology to ensure secrecy is
immediately challenged by counter-technologies, which are in turn beaten by new
secrecy tools. Experts, however, believe that the war is finally being won by
the code-makers. Simon Singh, the author of
The Code Book, has suggested that the advent of quantum
cryptography would make it theoretically and practically impossible to decipher
an encrypted conversation.
Concerns about the intelligence establishment's
communication security have been voiced for several years now. The May 2000
report of the official task force on the intelligence apparatus (see separate
story) noted the need for the Intelligence Bureau to possess "a reliable
and safe communications capability". The report said: "Many of the
hostile groups operating within the country currently benefit from the
expertise of foreign intelligence services, and are able not only to latch on
to frequencies, but can also demodulate RF (radio frequency) transmissions that
have been modulated and remodulated after
transmission." "Almost all messages," the report concluded,
"now need to be encrypted, and online encryption is a dire
necessity." The report has been accepted by the Central government,
but it
is anyone's guess how long it will be before such major technological upgradation comes about.
Interestingly, one form of unbreakable encryption, based
on what are known as one-time cipher pads, has existed for
almost a century. A one-time cipher consists of replacing characters or digits
with a randomly generated alternative. The hotline between the Presidents of
the U.S. and Russia apparently use these pads, but the costs of generating
genuinely random characters, and the difficulties involved in regularly
disseminating pads, render the use of this method impractical for everyday use.
Big Brother is listening, but Indian intelligence
officials are curiously blase about electronic
surveillance. The U.S.-run Project Echelon can intercept almost all
e-mail and fax correspondence and telephone conversations, using a network of
satellites and earth-based receivers. The interception of
conversations between
Organisations like the RAW do
possess significant technological capabilities, including equipment to sweep
important installations for bugs and to protect communications from
interception. The organisation, sources say, also has
considerable capability to intercept telephone conversations. Military
Intelligence, for its part, has formidable capabilities to decrypt enemy
communications and gather intelligence by prowling the air waves. Such
technology, however, is closely guarded, and finds little system-wide
application. Visitors to top intelligence establishments and the Defence Ministry face only physical frisking, designed to
detect not sophisticated surveillance tools but weapons. Any half-competent
spy with access to any of these establishments would have little difficulty
planting bugs, or taping conversations, or filming documents. Even rooms which
house ciphering equipment are rarely shielded from the prospect of an
electronic attack.
If Tehelka's investigative team
members had instead been espionage agents, the consequences would have been
calamitous for the country. None of the conversations of the Defence Minister would have been confidential. India's
nuclear secrets, its defence acquisitions, its inner
workings: all these would have been transparent. Decisions made in
the offices of top military officials would have been known to
For all we know, this is already the case. Almost all of
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Vocabulary
blasé adj. Unconcerned; nonchalant: had a blasé attitude
about housecleaning.
Personal Review.
Any half-competent spy … would have little difficulty
planting bugs, or taping conversations, or filming documents.
Almost all of
Refer the sample scenarios provided by spy device victim and the current advancement of spy devices. The level of intelligence gathering that could happen at home as well as at office of many Indian “Babus” or bureaucrats through these modern spy devices is worth noting. But then, who cares? Many of these Babus are blasé as the author of the above article (Praveen Swami) notes sadly.
And if they were
equipped with state-of-the-art emission detection equipment, the spies could have
read
each line of text typed out on the computers at the Defence Ministry.
Passwords, classified material etc, “open” secrets!
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Reference
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Cyber Crime - IT ACT,
2000. Chapter IX. Penalties and Adjudication. 43. Penalty for damage to
computer, computer system, etc.
The Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) - Cyber Crime - IT ACT, 2000.
IT ACT, 2000
CHAPTER IX
PENALTIES AND ADJUD1CATION
43. Penalty for damage to computer,
computer system, etc.
If any person without permission of
the owner or any other person who is in charge of a computer, computer system
or computer network, -
(a) accesses or secures access to
such computer, computer system or computer network;
(b) downloads, copies or extracts any
data, computer data base or information from such computer, computer system or computer
network including information or data held or stored in any removable storage
medium;
(c) introduces or causes to be
introduced any computer contaminant or computer virus into
any computer, computer system or computer network;
(d) damages or causes to be damaged
any computer, computer system or computer network, data, computer data base or
any other programmes residing in such computer,
computer system or computer network;
(e) disrupts or causes disruption of
any computer, computer system or computer network;
(f) denies or causes the denial of
access to any person authorized to access any computer, computer system or
computer network by any means;
(g) provides
any assistance to any person to facilitate access to a computer, computer
system or computer network in contravention of the provisions of this Act,
rules or regulations made thereunder;
(h) charges the services availed of
by a person to the account of another person by tampering with or manipulating any
computer, computer system, or computer network,
he shall be liable to pay damages by
way of compensation
not exceeding one crore rupees
to the person so affected.
Explanation.-For the purposes of this
section,-
(i)
"computer contaminant" means any set of computer instructions that
are designed-
(a) to modify, destroy, record, transmit
data or programme residing within a computer,
computer system or computer network; or
(b) by any means to usurp the normal
operation of the computer, computer system, or computer network;
(ii) "computer data base"
means a representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts or
instructions in text, image, audio, video that are being prepared or have been
prepared in a formalized manner or have been produced by a computer, computer
system or computer network and are intended for use in a computer, computer
system or computer network;
(iii) "computer virus"
means any computer instruction, information, data or programme
that destroys, damages, degrades or adversely affects the performance of a
computer resource or attaches itself to another computer resource and operates
when a programme, data or instruction is executed or
some other event takes place in that computer resource;
(iv) "damage" means to
destroy, alter, delete, add, modify or rearrange any computer resource by any
means.
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Thera, Ñanamoli. (Translated from the Pali)
(Revised:
Thu
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/an05-161a.html
Anguttara Nikaya V.161
Aghatapativinaya Sutta
Removing
Annoyance
Translated from the Pali by Ñanamoli Thera.
For free distribution only.
Read an alternate translation by Thanissaro
Bhikkhu
From The Practice of Loving-kindness (Metta)
(WH 7), by Ñanamoli Thera,
(Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1987).
Copyright ©1987 Buddhist Publication Society. Used with permission.
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"Bhikkhus, there are these
five ways of removing annoyance, by which annoyance can be entirely removed by
a bhikkhu when it arises in him. What are the five?
"Loving-kindness
can be
maintained in being towards a person with whom you are annoyed: this is how
annoyance with him can be removed.
"Compassion can be maintained in
being towards a person with whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance
with him can be removed.
"Onlooking equanimity can be maintained in
being towards a person with whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance
with him can be removed.
"The forgetting and
ignoring of a person with whom you are annoyed can be practiced; this too is
how annoyance with him can be removed.
"Ownership of deeds
in a person with whom you are annoyed can be concentrated upon thus:
'This good person is owner of his deeds, heir to his deeds, his deeds are the
womb from which he is born, his deeds are his kin for whom he is responsible,
his deeds are his refuge, he is heir to his deeds, be they good or bad.' This too is how
annoyance with him can be removed.
"These are the five ways of removing annoyance, by
which annoyance can be entirely removed in a bhikkhu
when it arises in him."
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Walt,
Vivienne. (
http://216.87.7.9/press/snooping_aids_make_privacy_hard_to_buy.htm
Shelves
of Snooping Aids Make Privacy Hard to Buy
By
VIVIENNE WALT
LOS ANGELES -- A MAN stepped through the door of a spy store in West Hollywood and muttered that his company, a "major movie studio," was tapping his telephone. He needed a device to examine the phone, hunt down the tap and shut the thing off.
That
might sound like an unreasonably worried customer.
But
phone tapping is bigger than ever -- both the
illegal kind and the legal kind.
Court-authorized
government wiretaps reached a record two million private conversations last
year, according to Justice Department
figures released this month.
Americans
might express outrage that Linda Tripp taped phone calls from her friend,
Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern. But Ms. Tripp, it seems, has plenty of
company. More than ever, Americans seem to
relish listening in on other people's conversations and taping their own,
electronics analysts and people who sell electronic devices say.
For
do-it-yourself spies, the easiest surveillance -- taping your own calls -- is
now so simple and cheap that there hardly seems to be a reason not to own the
technology. Many new telephone answering machines have a button that, when
pushed, will begin taping conversations without informing the other party. That
is illegal in only 13 states;
Several
recording jacks on the market plug into a tape recorder on one end and a
telephone on the other, allowing the user to put the tape on pause during
irrelevant parts and so save various literary agents and reporters from
slogging through hours of worthless chitchat later on.
"I'm
not sure what people are doing with these, but they're very popular," said
a sales assistant at a
At
the West Hollywood spy store, Spy Tech Agency, on Sunset Boulevard, engineers
have modified regular voice-activated recorders so they can tape four hours on
each side, which allows someone to tap a phone without having to baby-sit the
action continually. With one of these, the
owner can splice a connecting line into one
part of the telephone wire -- which is called tapping into the line -- and then hide the recorder in some other part of the
house.
Last
year, said the Spy Tech Agency's owner, John Dresden, the device may have saved
the life of a Spy Tech client, a suspicious
husband who taped his wife's calls only to discover that she and her lover were
plotting his murder. His wife found the
recorder and smashed it, Mr. Dresden said, but the husband returned to buy
another one and then handed the tapes to the police.
More recently, Mr. Dresden installed one of these recorders for a woman who wanted to record the calls of her teen-age son, whom she suspected of using drugs. The tapes exceeded her worst fears, Mr. Dresden said. "She couldn't believe the stuff he was doing," he said.
With
all this gadgetry, anybody might be tempted to try tapping a phone. But beware: all states ban unauthorized third-party wiretaps, even though some judges have ruled that parents can
record their children's calls because they pay the phone bills.
Despite
the laws, private investigators say they are being bombarded with clients'
requests for illegal wiretaps. "When I had an ad in the yellow pages, I'd
get a few requests every week," said Tom Grant, a longtime private
detective whose best-known client these days is Paula Corbin Jones. By far
the easiest method of telephone tapping, he said, is bribing a
technician.
Telephone
deregulation has increased the number of telephone companies, and it has also
changed the design of telephone boxes outside buildings, which connect the
inside lines to the street. Since telephone companies no longer have sole
authority over the inside wires, new boxes are designed with simple, modular
jacks so an electrician can add a line. That means that a snoop with minimal
technical know-how can plug a recording jack into the box without ever entering
the house.
Still,
new digital telephone systems are far more
difficult to tap than the older, analog lines --
so much so that the Federal Bureau of Investigation won an agreement from the
telephone industry to institute some changes in the system to make surveillance
easier.
Under
the deal, companies agreed to give government agents the ability to track
cellular-phone users. But the F.B.I. is arguing for greater access to digital
networks, including, among other things, the ability to monitor conference
calls even after the agent's target has hung up.
Cordless
and cellular phones can invite eavesdropping. Speaker
Newt Gingrich was overheard in December 1996 by a Florida man and woman who
were using a simple radio scanner in their car; they eavesdropped on a conference call with
Republican leaders, hatching their response to ethics charges against him. At
least one of the participants chose to talk on a cellular phone -- proving,
perhaps, that many Americans are not aware
of how leaky wireless telephones can be.
It is
also true that the recorded phone call has become commonplace in some areas.
Call a customer-service line, and a recording lets you know you are being
taped. Answer a telemarketing call, and that the call is probably being taped.
"There's
an acceptance that there are fewer opportunities for candid conversation,"
said Robert Ellis Smith, editor of The Privacy Journal, a newsletter based in
Providence, R.I.
Government
wiretapping is on the rise, too. A total of
1,186 requests were approved by Federal and state judges in 1997, which was an
increase of 3 percent from the number in 1996, according to the Justice
Department wiretapping report issued this month. As in the past, most of the
requests, nearly three-quarters, were for drug investigations; the largest
number were issued in New York, which had 304; in New Jersey, with 70, and
Florida, with 57.
But
for those who care about keeping their conversations private, there are a few
simple rules. First and foremost, stay off
cordless and cellular telephones: they act as radio transmitters. If you need a cordless telephone, buy an expensive,
digital version. VTech makes telephones that include
a digital scrambling system. Use digital,
rather than analog, cellular phones for more private conversations. Another rule to remember is that even if your phone is
secure, your conversation partner's may not be.
For
sensitive calls to a specific person, two voice-scrambling devices are
available to attach to both handsets. They will scramble the transmission and
unscramble it on the other end. Spy Tech sells them for $300 each.
While
scrambling devices can render wiretaps useless, some tap detectors on the
market will alert you if someone's listening. Most
of them work on finding radio signals
transmitted over the line, a signal that
there is a wiretap at work. But in large
offices, finding a bug or phone tap needs far more complicated methods than
anything you can buy from a catalogue.
"It
isn't that simple, like in the movies, unfortunately," Mr. Dresden, of the
Spy Tech Agency, told the studio employee who came looking for a wiretap
detector for his office telephone.
"We'd
have to come in and sweep the whole place -- it'll cost you around 50
grand," said Mr. Dresden, leaning against a cabinet of tiny transmitters
in his blue jeans and cowboy boots. In an era when people are seeing alluring
little gadgets for James Bond and Dick Tracy-type wristwatch computers, it was
disappointing news. The man left empty-handed.
In
the final analysis, many people seem not to care a great deal about whether
their calls are being tapped. The news this
month that the government was listening in on a record number of calls barely
made a flutter in the news.
"Technology's
already diminished our privacy a lot," said
David Wagner, a computer-science graduate student at the University of
California at Berkeley who helped crack the GSM encryption technology used in
80 million cellular phones a few weeks ago. "Two
hundred years ago, if you wanted a private conversation, you went out into the
middle of the woods."
Mr. Dresden
cannot provide the woods. But in recent years, he has helped several financial
companies come close to that experience by designing
safe rooms for them where deals can be made without fear of economic espionage.
One room in a
downtown Los Angeles building, Mr. Dresden said, has vibrating noise generators built into the walls -- about $30,000 worth of electronic equipment alone.
For
the studio employee who wandered into his store, however, Mr. Dresden offered
his best advice for anyone needing privacy:
"Don't use the phone."
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“Thou belongest to That Which Is Undying,
and not merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its muteness at last. “Thou art eternal, and not merely of the vanishing
flesh. The soul in man cannot be
killed, cannot die. It waits, shroud-wrapped,
in thy heart,
as I waited,
sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know
thyself, O
mortal! For there is One
within thee, as in all men, that comes
and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!”
(Reference: Brunton, Paul. (1962) A Search in Secret
Amen