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Tech news: Extracting audio from video, or how to turn a bag of chips into a microphone
As technology advances, new threats to privacy emerge as well. What only takes place in a lab today, may be more commonplace in the near future. The team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Microsoft and software firm Adobe created an algorithm that created useful [...]
CIA reeling from spy scandal
from TheHill.com The CIA’s admission that it broke into Senate computers and spied on Intelligence Committee staffers has created a firestorm for the spy agency, with some calling for change at the top. The scandal has stirred fresh doubts about Director John Brennan’s ability to [...]
New book “Spymaster: The Secret Life of Kendrick”, story of British MI6 officer in WWII.
A historian's new book examines the valiant spying effort made at a highly secretive house in Buckinghamshire, which may have saved London from the same fate as Hiroshima. Dr Helen Fry has written Spymaster: The Secret Life of Kendrick, which tells the story of the [...]
Eavesdropping Goes Postal
Postal worker accused of eavesdropping WATERTOWN, NY -- State Police arrested a Watertown postal worker for trying to tape a confidential conversation. Troopers arrested 50-year-old John L. Sullivan after they say he placed a recording device in a U.S. Postal Vehicle in an attempt to record [...]
Fox News: One method for dealing with hidden cameras…
ANCHORAGE, AK — A group of researchers studying sea lions in Round Island, Alaska, saw a fox coming along. Being the curious people they are, they decided to set up a video camera to record the animal. Unfortunately, the fox was more aware of its [...]
Prague: Czech-ing for bugs
More and more influential players are resorting to meetings abroad or in secluded areas Prague, July 16 (ČTK) — Czech politicians, lobbyists and influential businessmen are seeking new places safe from bugging for their meetings in reaction to extensive wiretapping not only in offices but also [...]
India: Bugged or not bugged? Media claims possible bugging of Minister of Transport home.
The Sunday Guardian of India claims to have a report from a "highly placed source" that high power bugging devices were found in the bedroom of Nitin Gadkari, senior BJP leader who is also the Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways. The reports are later denied [...]
Listening devices found at Ford HQ; recently fired engineer investigated
from The Detroit News Detroit— The FBI searched Ford Motor Co.’s world headquarters while investigating one of the automaker’s engineers and seized listening devices, computers and financial records, according to search warrants obtained by The News on Thursday. A lawyer for the mechanical engineer said [...]
West Seneca, NY, employees claim conversations were bugged by former boss
from The Buffalo News An accountant resigned from her $42,000-a-year part-time job as West Seneca’s comptroller two months ago after employees accused her and an aide of using a tape recorder to secretly record their workplace conversations. Town officials confirmed that two town employees made [...]
Australia: Bugging probe of Greek Orthodox priest and his home
POLICE are examining alleged threats made to a Greek priest and the bugging of a church house in which he was living. The alleged threats, involving an unnamed priest from the Autocephalic Greek Church of America and Australia, were reported a fortnight ago while the [...]