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Use of Spy Cameras and Snooping Devices in
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Reference Chapter 6
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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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Abnormal Psychology: Sexual Disorders.
http://www.byu.edu/~psychweb/bnc/ab/ab-n18.htm
Voyeurism
A voyeur is one who achieves sexual arousal through
clandestine viewing of others. Hence, the are also called "peeping
Toms." Again almost exclusive to men, these persons most often
view women, with favorite targets being women who are undressed or a couple
having sex. The "danger" of potentially being caught seems
to heighten the arousal, and the avoidance of overtly approaching a women, with
the associated risk of rejection, simultaneously makes it seem safer. Indeed, many of
these men have intense insecurities about the status with women or have a history of
rejection.
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The above case is equally applicable on women who spy on “unbending” men or strangers. To find ways to corner, sexually. Naturally such women don’t display a sense of dignity, shame, self-respect or even decency. Predator women, just like predator men.
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CBI begins query into phone tapping; Tata Tea director Kidwai interrogated. phone-tapping.net.
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles17.html
CBI begins query into phone tapping; Tata
Tea director Kidwai interrogated
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday initiated
the inquiry process into allegations that phones of some industrialists in
The bureau registered a case on Thursday on the basis of
complaints received from the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited,
The case was registered in the CBI special crime branch
in
The home ministry, following the MTNL complaint, had on
Wednesday ordered a comprehensive inquiry into the entire episode.
The complaints of telephone tapping came after The Indian
Express published the alleged transcript of conversation between industrialists Nusli Wadia and Ratan Tata and Field Marshal Sam Maneckshaw on the telephone which had connections with the Tata Tea case.
Meanwhile, Tata Tea Executive
Director Sayeed M Kidwai
was being interrogated by the
Kidwai,who arrived in Guwahati by a special plane following summons by the state
police, was taken directly to a police guest house. He was summoned in
connection with paying the air fare by the company to four Bodo
militants to travel to
Tata Tea Managing
Director R K Krishna Kumar, who was also summoned by the state police along
with Kidwai, has sought more time and is expected to
arrive here on October 11, the police said.
Kidwai was earlier
interrogated by the police on September 11 in connection with funding for
treatment of ULFA 'cultural secretary' Pranati Deka.
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CBI can tap at whim -- Agency has 6 bugging machines.
(
http://www.phone-tapping.net/phone_tapping_articles15.html
"The Pioneer" headlined on
"CBI can tap at whim -- Agency has 6 bugging
machines"
(The CBI is effectively the Indian equivalent of the FBI)
Apparently, these machines costing Rs.
7.5 million = $200,000 each, can each tap 7 phones in a 25-km radius, and were
bought from a Hyderabad-based company, Fidelity Systems. Apparently, all that
is needed to tap a phone is for the sleuths to dial the number through the
machine, which then automatically starts and stops recording all conversations
carried out with that number, as well the numbers dialled
by the target.
As it is, the law on wiretapping is draconian in India:
on the occurrence of an emergency, or for "public safety", a
designated government officer can direct that "any message or class of
messages to or from any person or class of persons, or relating to any
particular subject, brought for transmission by or transmitted or received by
any telegraph, shall not be transmitted, or shall be intercepted or detained or
shall be disclosed to the government." (This is from the Indian Telegraph
Act of 1885(!), and applies to e-mail and BBSes as
well). But with these new machines, even this designated officer can be
bypassed.
Under a box titled "Beware of blank calls", the
newspaper mentions that when the sleuths ring your number to start tapping, you
get a "blank" call (which one is quite used to here -- if that were
enough evidence, the whole of
What technology is this? If it indeed works this way,
what is
to prevent any large company or rich person from procuring the same hardware?
Apparently, the purchase was authorised
by former prime minister Rao, who is now complaining
that his own phone is being tapped (serves him right).
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Reference
Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2001.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR03482:@@@D&summ2=0&
Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2001 - Directs the
United States Sentencing Commission to amend Federal sentencing guidelines and
otherwise address crimes involving fraud in connection with computers and access to protected
information, protected computers or restricted data in interstate or
foreign commerce or involving a computer used by or for the Federal Government.
Includes among exceptions to otherwise criminal conduct emergency disclosures
to a governmental entity by an electronic communication service and specified
disclosures made in good faith. Increases penalties for violations where the offender
knowingly causes or attempts to cause death or serious bodily injury.
Directs the Attorney General, acting through the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, to establish and maintain a National Infrastructure
Protection Center to serve as a national focal point for threat assessment,
warning, investigation, and response to attacks on the Nation's critical
infrastructure, both physical and cyber.
Establishes within the Department of Justice an Office of
Science and Technology to work on law enforcement technology issues, addressing
safety, effectiveness and improved access by Federal, State, and local law
enforcement agencies. Includes investigative and forensic technologies,
corrections technologies, and technologies that support the judicial process.
Abolishes the Office of Science and Technology of the
National Institute of Justice, transferring functions, activities, and funds to
the newly formed Office.
Requires the Director of the Office to operate and
support National Law Enforcement and
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Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR03482:@@@L&summ2=m&
Cyber Security Enhancement Act of
2002 - Title I: Computer Crime
- Directs the United States Sentencing Commmission to review and, if
appropriate, amend Federal sentencing guidelines and otherwise address crimes
involving fraud in connection with computers and access to protected
information, protected computers, restricted data in interstate or foreign
commerce, or involving a computer used by or for the Federal Government.
Requires such guidelines to: (1) reflect
the serious nature of the offenses, their
growing incidence, and the
need for an effective deterrent; (2) consider
resulting losses, the
level of sophistication involved, any financial gain, intent,
and the violation or disruption of privacy rights,
national security, critical infrastructure, or public health or safety; (3) assure
consistency; and (4) account
for mitigating circumstances.
(Sec. 101A) Requires the Commission
to report to Congress on any actions taken and recommendations regarding
statutory penalties.
(Secs. 102
& 103) Includes among exceptions to otherwise criminal conduct emergency
disclosures to a governmental entity by an electronic communication service
(which must be subsequently reported to the Attorney General and Congress) and
specified disclosures made in good faith.
(Sec. 104) Directs the Attorney
General to establish and maintain a National Infrastructure Protection Center
to serve as a national focal point for threat assessment, warning,
investigation, and response to attacks on the Nation's critical infrastructure,
both physical and cyber. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003.
(Sec. 105) Prohibits the distribution
of advertisements of illegal interception devices
through the Internet as well as by other, specified media.
(Sec. 106) Increases
penalties for violations where the offender knowingly causes or attempts to
cause death or serious bodily injury.
(Sec. 107) Expands
the legal protection for a communication provider who legally assists law
enforcement with an investigation under the emergency disclosure exception
under the
(Sec. 108) Adds immediate threats to
national security interests and ongoing attacks on protected computers to the
list of situations during which an emergency pen register and/or trap
and trace device may be used.
(Sec. 109) Broadens the offense of
and increases the penalties for illegally intercepting cell-phone conversations
or invading the privacy of another person's stored
communications. States that a law enforcement
officer need not be present for a warrant to be served or executed under the
Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Title II: Office of Science and
Technology - Establishes within the Department
of Justice an Office of Science and Technology to work on law enforcement
technology issues, addressing safety, effectiveness, and improved access by
Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies.
(Sec. 203) Defines "law
enforcement technology" to include investigative and forensic
technologies, corrections technologies, and technologies that support the
judicial process.
(Sec. 204) Abolishes the Office of
Science and Technology of the National Institute of Justice, transferring
functions, activities, and funds to the newly formed Office.
(Sec. 205) Requires the Director of the
Office to operate and support National Law Enforcement and
(Sec. 206) Amends the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require the Assistant Attorney General
to coordinate the activities of the various bureaus whose functions relate to
technology programs.
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Eve-teasers turn killers, 60-yr-old man murdered. (
http://www.edage.org/legal_news_feb2.htm
THE PIONEER
06.02.2002
ON LINE
Eve-teasers turn killers,
60-yr-old man murdered
Staff Reporter/New
In a most heinous and cowardly crime, a 60-year-old man
was stabbed to death by three youths when he objected to the three passing obscene remarks on his married daughter.
The incident occurred in the Jahangirpuri
area of North-west district on Monday night. Jaidev
(60), resident of gali number 8, Haiderpur
had gone to the Nizamuddin Railway station around
Accompanying Jaidev was his son
Ganesh, Sanju was coming
back with her husband Mahipal and Mahipal's
brother Inderpal. Jaidev
and his son received the three at the station.
Not finding a direct bus, they took a connecting bus to a
place midway. When they got off, it was around
The five were at Godaam fatak, Subzi Mandi
in Jehangirpuri when three youths on a scooter
started to follow them. Ganesh, Mahipal
and Inderpal were walking around 100 metres ahead of Jaidev and Sanju.
As the three youths passed Jaidev
and Sanju, one of them passed an obscene comment and
pulled at Sanju's saree. Like any father
would, Jaidev objected and abused
the three youths.
The youths took umbrage to this and parked their scooter and came towards Jaidev. One of them got into a fight with Jaidev and stabbed him with a knife in the chest and
abdomen repeatedly. The three ran away after committing the crime.
A passerby saw the incident happen and the blood oozing
out of Jaidev's chest and informed the police. The
police got there to find a profusely bleeding Jaidev
on the ground. He was taken to the Babu Jagjivan Ram hospital where he was declared brought dead.
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Vocabulary.
Umbrage n.
a feeling of anger caused by an offence;
"give or take umbrage
or offense"
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Eve-teasing
Act to be made more stringent. (
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?artid=26791386
Eve-teasing
Act to be made more stringent
PTI [ WEDNESDAY,
CHENNAI:
The Tamil Nadu government has decided to make the
Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Eve-teasing Act, 1998, more
stringent and effective, and a bill to amend the act was introduced in the
assembly on Wednesday.
Incidents
of eve-teasing resulting sometimes even in loss of lives of college and school
girls continued unabated even after the enactment of the act in 1998, a statement appended to the bill said.
The
government referred the act to the State Law Commission to suggest suitable
changes so as to make it more effective, and the commission had made several
recommendations. The act was being amended incorporating the recommendations of
the commission, it said.
Several
women's fora had also suggested for a change in the
title of the act as the term eve-teasing sounded less serious and had less
impact on the offenders. To have a better focus and a wider coverage, the
government has decided to change the title into The Tamil Nadu
Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act, the statement added.
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FBI
bugging phones, scanning emails in
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=7&id=239165
FBI
bugging phones, scanning emails in
LAHORE
— After the recent statement of Osama
bin Laden, telecast by Al-Jezeera TV, the
The
latest audio cassette carrying the alleged statement of bin Laden was delivered
to a reporter of Al-Jazeera in
The
sources said that after the latest statement of bin Laden, telecast by Al-Jazeera TV, the FBI
teams swiftly moved to
The
users of cellular phones in Pakistan were facing problems due to FBI's hi-tech
communication system and installation of powerful boosters and scanners in
various areas. The complaints about system
and communication error had also been made by the cellular phone subscribers.
The
sources furthers disclosed that not only the
FBI, but a large numbers of the U.S. Central Investigation Agency (CIA)
personnel were also operating here to assist the FBI in order to trace out al-Qaida
and other anti-U.S. organizations' network in Pakistan.
Moreover,
the National Security Agency (NSA) is also assisting the FBI to scan
telephones, cellular phones, fax messages and the
Internet, the sources added.
The
U.S. agencies, operating in Pakistan, initially installed the system to scan
the cellular phones of Mobilink which is working on
the GSM network. Later, other technology for
the scanning of other cellular phone system and telephones was also imported
from the U.S. (Balochistan
Post)
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Moreover,
the National Security Agency (NSA) is also assisting the FBI to scan
telephones, cellular phones, fax messages and the
Internet, the sources added.
There is always a bigger fish!
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Hackers could face life in jail. (Tuesday, July 16, 2002) Science/Nature: BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2131773.stm
Tuesday,
16 July, 2002, 14:39 GMT 15:39 UK
Hackers
could face life in jail
Photo.
Some
hackers could be face long prison sentences
Malicious
computer hackers could soon face life in prison for some computer crimes.
The
US House of Representatives has approved a bill that inflicts harsh penalties
for computer crimes that harm people or endanger America's critical
infrastructure.
The
same law rewrites the rules on surveillance and lets US police forces and law
enforcers install wiretaps if there is an ongoing attack deemed to threaten
national security.
Civil
liberty groups criticised the legislation and said it
trampled on rights to privacy, was hastily drawn up and punished people too
severely.
Jail
time
The
Cyber Security Enhancement Act was endorsed by a huge majority in the US House
of Representatives on Monday.
The
Act was drawn up in response to a series of well-publicised
attacks on high-profile websites.
Photo.
Kevin
Mitnick: Former hacker banned from using computers
Last
year's attacks in New York contributed to its support by US politicians.
Earlier
this year Lamar Smith, one of the Congressmen sponsoring the bill, said:
"A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet
or a bomb."
The
CSEA asks for the revision of sentencing guidelines for crimes that are
committed with, or by, a computer.
It
calls for a maximum life sentence for those who put lives at risk by breaking into computer systems and changing them or by recklessly misusing a computer.
'Sweeping
and harsh'
The
Act also gives law enforcement organisations more powers
to investigate hack attacks.
It lets police forces and federal investigators install wiretaps without prior approval of a court if the attack is thought to be a threat to national security or is "ongoing".
The
bill also obliges net service providers to tip off the police if they notice
any suspicious activity on their network.
Civil
liberties groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the
legislation was too sweeping and the penalties it invoked were too harsh.
The
Act still has to go before the Senate before it becomes law and some opponents
are hoping that there will not be enough time to consider it before the current
political sessions end in October.
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He lost his life for opposing eve-teasers. (Tuesday, October 29, 2002) Kochi, India: Times News Network.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?artid=26683610
He
lost his life for opposing eve-teasers
PTI [ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2002 07:57:05 PM ]
KOCHI:
A 45-year-old man, who filed a police complaint against some miscreants for
making lewd remarks at a woman and her daughter, was hacked to death inside his
house at Nearpananghad on Sunday night, police said.
Gopalakrishnan
had confronted a group of miscreants near his residence at Pananghad,
who teased the woman and her daughter on Sunday evening.
Gopalakrishnan,
a fisherman, who had also complained to the police about the ganja trade of the
miscreants, also filed a complaint with the police.
Later
in the night when there was power-cut in the area, the group of miscreants in
an inebirated state forced their way into the
victim's house and inflicted serious injuries on him. They also damaged window
panes and cars parked in the neighboring houses before
warning the frightened neighborhood about the consequences if any complaint was
made to police.
Gopalakrishnan
was rushed to the hospital where he later died.
Three
of the miscreants who had attacked Gopalakrishnan
were arrested on Tuesday, police sources said.
Meanwhile,
15 houses of the miscreants were burnt by the neighbors of the deceased, in
protest against the murder.
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(Key points only)
Hidden
bedroom cameras inspire video privacy bill. (Tuesday,
April 16, 2002) USA: SiliconValley.com.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3077573.htm
Hidden
video cameras in bedrooms, bathrooms and other private places would be outlawed
under a bill introduced in Congress Tuesday that
would also limit pornographic Web sites to
an online red-light district.
…
…illegal
to film someone for a ``lewd or lascivious purpose'' without that person's
consent.
Violators
would face an unspecified fine and up to three years of jail time, or 10 years
if the filmed subject was under 18.
The
bill would not apply to security cameras in private places such as department
store dressing rooms, nor would it penalize those filming on city streets or
other public places where privacy does not exist.
Landrieu said she wrote the bill after hearing from Wilson, a Monroe, Louisiana, homemaker who found hidden video cameras above her bed and in her shower nearly four years ago.
Wilson
found she could not pursue criminal charges
against the voyeur because secret video taping, unlike audio surveillance, is
illegal in only a handful of states.
``It's
an outrageous, outrageous violation of someone's privacy and it's outrageous we
don't have laws prohibiting this,'' Landrieu
said.
…
``It's
getting to the point where every aspect of our lives is now subject to this
kind of surveillance ... and there's a lack of procedures governing the use of that
technology,'' said David Sobel,
general counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
The
bill would also require Web sites containing pornography, hate speech or other
material deemed harmful to minors to give up their ``.com'' Web addresses and
register under an adults-only Internet domain such as ``.prn.''
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Japan arrests 'secret porn movie makers'. (Friday, October 11, 2002) Japan, Asia-Pacific: BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2319411.stm
Friday, 11 October, 2002, 10:41 GMT 11:41 UK
Japan arrests 'secret porn movie makers'
A man watching a pornographic video in Japan reportedly
got a shock when he spotted his wife in it.
The Asahi Shimbun reported that two people have been arrested after it
is alleged they secretly filmed the man's wife at a public bathhouse.
A 41-year-old man and 33-year-old woman have been arrested
on charges of illegal entry after they posed as customers at the bathhouse, the
newspaper said.
The Asahi said the woman suspect is alleged to have hidden a camera in her towel in
order to film women in the changing room.
The husband of one of the filmed women, whom the report
did not name, saw the video at a local shop.
The newspaper said the two suspects allegedly began
shooting videos in public changing rooms in the Osaka area in western Japan two years ago.
The male suspect is accused of selling the videos to
wholesalers for up to 80,000 yen ($644) each, the paper reported.
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Landrieu: New Bill Makes “Video Voyeurism” A Federal Crime. (Tuesday, April 16, 2002) USA: State Government of Louisiana.
http://www.senate.gov/~landrieu/releases/02/2002417521.html
Under a new bill introduced today by Senator Mary Landrieu(D-La.), secretly videotaping a person in intimate situations without their consent would become a federal crime.
"In
the privacy of our own homes, none of us should have to wonder whether or not
we're being secretly watched-- and even
recorded," said Senator Landrieu. "Unfortunately, our laws haven't
kept up with the new technology that makes this kind of invasion of privacy
very easy to accomplish. This act of "video voyeurism" is not
addressed by our federal legal system and in most states, it's not even a
crime. The legislation I am introducing today helps fill this gaping hole in
our privacy laws, so that if someone is secretly watching you, under this bill
it will be a crime punishable by law."
…
"This bill will help provide victims and their families with much-needed protection and ensure some accountability for those who violate the privacy of others."
- Susan Wilson.
…
Under
the bill, any person who uses a camera or similar recording device to record
another individual either for a lewd or lascivious purpose without that
person's consent is in violation of the law. The penalty for violation is a
fine and/or imprisonment of up to three years, or ten years in the case of a
minor.
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Man accused of installing software to monitor use of computer by estranged wife. (Thursday, September 06, 2001) USA: News Tribune Co.
http://newstribune.com/stories/090601/wor_0906010962.asp
"Just
like breaking into someone's home, breaking into a person's computer is a
crime," Granholm said. "These are crimes
that hurt people because they make them feel vulnerable."
Brown,
41, was charged with installing an
eavesdropping device, eavesdropping, using a computer to commit a crime and having
unauthorized computer access.
…
Granholm said
Brown used a commercially available program called eBlaster
to hack into his estranged wife's computer at her home in Warren this spring.
The program caused all her Web surfing and Internet
communication to be e-mailed to Brown as frequently as every 30 minutes without
her knowledge, Granholm said.
When
Brown allegedly shared some of that
information with his estranged wife's friend, the
Michigan Attorney General's High Tech Crime Unit was alerted and investigators
seized Brown's computer equipment.
"People
have to be very concerned about security," Granholm said.
"You hate to be paranoid, but the reality is
people get hacked all the time."
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Reference
Plot Summary for “Enemy of the State”. (Movie)(1998)
http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0120660
A successful lawyer finds himself the target
of a treacherous NSA official and his goons after receiving evidence to a
politically motivated murder, the only man that can help him is a former
government operative turned surveillance
expert.
Summary written by mystic80
Robert Dean is just a successful and gutsy
labor lawyer when he runs into an old college friend who was a big hurry.
Unknown to him, that friend secretly drops a disc and viewer containing footage
of a political assassination overseen by the senior advisor to the National
Security Agency. Unfortunately, that politician soon learns what Dean has in
his possession and secretly uses the vast resources of the NSA to find,
investigate and stop him before he goes public. Soon, Dean finds himself on the run, with his
assets frozen, his loved ones watched and
actively hunted by NSA agents using all the
surveillance technology they have available. Not knowing what is going, Dean must stay one step
ahead while trying to figure out the cause of this mess.
Summary written by Kenneth Chisholm { [email protected] }
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Reference
Surveillance
and Security - Personal and Corporate Espionage / Spying
Are
you being bugged ?
http://www.globalchange.com/bug.htm
And
just in case you were still under the delusion that a swept room is secure,
devices are available using lasers which allow
someone to listen to a conversation taking place half a mile away using
equipment operating at that distance. Laser
light reflects off window glass, carrying with it vibrations from noise inside
the room.
…
Privacy
died a long time ago. In some countries use of concealed transmitters is
against the law yet these things are widely available for decreasing cost.
…
…theft
of "words spoken" has become one of the highest value crimes that can
possibly be committed. We urgently need international agreement that covert electronic surveillance is illegal except for
enforcing law and order. The sale of these
devices should be banned in every nation…
…
So
how can you protect yourself?
Firstly,
you should assume that whatever room you are
using is insecure unless otherwise proven.
…
Regard with suspicion any small gift that the donor might expect you to keep in your office, or put in your pocket. Examples included expensive pens, paper weights or any other object.
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Reference
The Date Rape Pill. USA: Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International and Real World Safety.
http://www.fullpower.org/Articles/rohypnol.html
The Date Rape Pill
Known as a "roofies"
or rohypnol, the date rape pill is a sedative 10
times more powerful than Valium. This small, tasteless, odorless pill dissolves easily in a drink, works in about 10 minutes, and costs about
$1.50 each. Someone who
has taken a date rape pill becomes very disoriented and then passes out, with no or very little memory of what
happened.
Rapists are using the date rape pill to entrap women. They
bring a woman a drink having dropped the pill in it. Or they put the pill in
the drink or food when the woman leaves the table. When the woman becomes ill
or disoriented, the rapist "very kindly" helps her leave, taking her
home or to some other place. Sometimes he reads her address on her drivers licence. Then, while she is semi-conscious or passed out,
he rapes her. The woman wakes up the next day, and is not able to explain what
happened.
The date rape pill has been discussed on television and in
magazine articles. The following safety habits can protect you from a bad
experience:
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Reference
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Voyeurism victim opens up on TV shows. (Friday, January 17, 2003) USA: The News-Star.
http://www.thenewsstar.com/html/133CF0A8-BD28-4DE7-AEC1-EE5D75B22565.shtml
… her
case against a neighbor who secretly installed video cameras in her bedroom and
bathroom brought about a new law against video voyeurism.
…
In
1998, when she found the cameras, along with intimate moments captured on
videotape in her neighbor's house, Wilson
discovered that law had not caught up with technology - there were no laws
against the practice in Louisiana. That spurred her to lobby for the creation
of a law in 1999.
The
story of Wilson and her family was already the subject of the Lifetime movie
"Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story."
…
Wilson
described as surreal the process of having the
most embarrassing, painful moments in her life made
into a movie.
…
Wilson
talked about the movie, which she described as surprisingly realistic, as if
she were holding the whole episode at an arm's length. When she described the
more poignant portions of the film, she used third-person
pronouns - she and her rather than me and I
- to deepict her own character, played by Angie Harmon.
"Listen
to me," Wilson said. "Even now, 'she' and 'her'. But that's part of my protection. I had to separate myself
from it. (The realism) was very hard to deal with. I had to keep distracting
myself."
Fourth
District Attorney Jerry Jones prosecuted Wilson's neighbor, who received a
suspended sentence for unauthorized entry.
…
"She
said his entering her house and drilling some holes didn't injure her, but both
those acts were against the law," Jones said.
"The
act that really caused her injury (videotaping her) was not against the
law," Jones said, "and that seriously upset her."
Shortly
after that, he asked Wilson to help lawmakers right that wrong by telling her
story. "She was a housewife, a mother, not a public spokesman," Jones
said. "I watched her mature from a shy person into a dynamic public
speaker."
The end result is a few paragraphs in the Louisiana Revised Statues, listed under 14:283, video voyeurism: "The use of any camera, videotape, photo-optical, photo-electric, or any other image recording device for the purpose of observing, viewing, photographing, filming, or videotaping and it is for lewd or lascivious purpose ... shall be, upon a first conviction thereof, be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisonment, with or without hard labor, for not more than two years or both."
Wilson,
though glad for the opportunity she has been given as a result of what happened
to her, still struggles with it.
…
… it has put such a strain on my family and on me."
The
worst part, she said, was living in a world where this sort of thing happens,
and according to the law, it was perfectly OK.
Wilson
said she lost a lot of freedom that day - but in reality, it was just a
perceived freedom.
"I'm
not (free) anymore," Wilson said.
"You aren't either."
But
thanks to Wilson's willingness to press the issue, even though she was in
the uncomfortable position of accusing a neighbor
and member of
her church, Jones said, no one will have to settle for OK.
The
whole experience has been cathartic, she said.
"I
like who I am now. I had always been a people-pleaser."
But through her experiences, and through her children, especially her oldest daughter, she learned that she didn't have to please people all the time.
"I
want (my children) to be kind," Wilson said, "but if you please God, you don't have to worry
about pleasing people - you do things
because they are the right thing to do."
Wilson
is currently working on a national law against the practice that will save her
from a state-to-state battle. Jones said about eight states have a law against
video voyeurism.
Jones
said he will introduce a bill similar to Megan's
Law at the next state session to require notification of neighbors in the event of a video
voyeurism conviction.
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Reference
What's the world thinking about? Sex, for one thing. (Friday, November 29, 2002)
Singapore: The Straits Times.
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/techscience/story/0,4386,157675,00.html?
What's the world thinking about? Sex, for one thing
Google's logs show that despite diversity in
geography and ethnicity, people search for the same things
MOUNTAIN VIEW (California) - At Google's
headquarters here, visitors sit in the lobby, transfixed by the words scrolling
by on the wall behind the receptionist's desk: animacion,
japonese, Harry Potter, brasileira
de normas, tecnicas.
The projected display, called Live Query, shows updated samples of what people
around the world are typing into Google's search
engine. The terms scroll by in English, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese,
Korean, French - any of the 86 languages that Google tracks.
Stare at Live Query long enough, and you feel that you are
watching the collective consciousness of the world stream by.
Each line represents a thought from someone, somewhere with an Internet connection. Google
collects these queries - 150 million a day from more than 100 countries - in
its databases, storing the computer logs millisecond by millisecond.
So what is the world thinking about?
Sex, for one thing.
'You can learn to say sex in a lot of different languages
by looking at the logs,' said Mr Craig Silverstein,
director of technology at Google.
Despite its geographic and ethnic diversity, the world is
spending much of its time thinking about the same things. Country to country, day to day, even minute to minute, the
same topics bubble to the top: celebrities, current events, computer downloads.
People all over the world are very similar, based on what
they search for, said Mr Greg Rae, one of three members of Google's
logs team, which is responsible for building, storing and protecting the data
record.
Judging from Google's data, some
sports events stir interest almost everywhere: the Tour de France, Wimbledon,
the Melbourne Cup horse race and the baseball World Series were among the top
10 sports-related searches last year.
It also becomes obvious just how familiar American movies,
music and celebrities are to searchers worldwide.
Google can also feel the reverberations of big events immediately.
On Feb 28, 2001, for example, an earthquake began near
Seattle at 10.54 am local time. Within two minutes, earthquake-related searches
jumped to 250 a minute from almost none.
On Sept 11, searches for the World Trade Center, Pentagon
and CNN shot up immediately after the attacks. Over the next few days, Nostradamus became the top search query, fuelled by a rumour that Nostradamus had
predicted the Twin Towers' destruction.
Google's query data respond to television,
movies and radio. But the mass media also feed off the demands of their
audiences. One of Google's strengths is its predictive power, flagging trends
before they hit the radar of other media.
As such, it could be of tremendous value to entertainment
companies or retailers.
Google is quiet about what, if any, plans
it has for commercialising its vast store of query
information. 'There is tremendous opportunity with this data,' Mr Silverstein said. --The New York Times
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Reference
Woman jailed for using sheriff's web address to sell porn. (Wednesday, November 06, 2002) UK: Ananova.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_704092.html
Ananova:
Woman jailed for using sheriff's web address
to sell porn
A woman has been jailed for a year after
using a website with the name of her local
sheriff to sell porn videos.
Jennifer Dute admitted
ridiculing Sheriff Simon Leis for his anti-pornography stance.
Ms Dute used the
address as a gateway to her porn site to sell her homemade
porn videos in Hamilton County, Ohio.
According to the Cincinatti
Post she referred to Leis, whose deputies arrested her in 1999 for pandering obscenity,
as "Simon (expletive) Leis who thinks he runs the county."
A jury last month convicted her of pandering
obscenity for selling four of the homemade porn tapes she starred in and her
husband videotaped.
She had promised following a 1999 conviction
for pandering obscenity to never again sell her tapes from or in Hamilton
County.
Assistant prosecutor Brad Greenber
told the court that instead of living up to that agreement, she continued
making and selling the videos
"She reacted by taunting Sheriff Leis. Not only did she taunt him, she stole his name," Mr Greenberg said.
Story filed:
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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