Actor Randy Quaid (aka General George S. Merlin, “Bug Buster”) and his wife, Evi… were in Canada seeking political asylum over their stated fears they would be “whacked” if they returned to Hollywood… they fled to Canada to escape the so-called “star whackers”
– a cult that is bugging their phones and hacking their computers.
“They’re absolute businessmen. It’s the mafia; it’s organized crime,” said Mrs. Quaid… The couple has said this “mafia” is behind eight celebrity, including Heath Ledger, deaths in the last 5 years. (more) (trailer)
I give spy coins to my clients.It is a reminder that information loss is mostly a people problem, not an electronic problem. Filing cabinets of information can walk out the door in pocket change!
Careless people often blab information, forget to secure it, toss it in the garbage can, or otherwise lose itāhundreds of laptops are lost every day. People also steal it when they become greedy, spiteful, conned, blackmailed, or caught up in a ācause.ā
Investigating an information loss, however, begins with an electronic surveillance detection audit.
Hereās why…
ā¢ Serious espionage will include electronic surveillance.
ā¢ The possibility must be resolved before accusing people.
ā¢ Bugging is the easiest spy technique to discover.
ā¢ Electronic surveillance evidence helps prove your case.
Best advice… Conduct audits on a regular basis. Uncover signs of espionage during the intelligence collection stage, before your information can be abused. (more)
A client reports back…
“I think of all of the trinket type things weāve accumulated over the years, the spy coin is *by far* the coolest, and is made even cooler with the background story provided on the chip!!
I took mine with me to the FBI building today and had the guards there X-ray it along-side of a normal quarter to see if its secret contents could be seen on an āairport qualityā X ray machine. They printed out a copy of the scan image, Iāve attached it to this email for your amusement as well.
Several agents commented on how well it was made, and how hard it would be to detect such a thing.“
What can property managers do when dog owners donāt pick up after their dogs? Under normal circumstances, not much, because there is no way of knowing who the violators might be. But now, with a new program called PooPrints that uses DNA to identify the dog in question, managers can catch the culprit (dog owner) in a matter of days.
PooPrints is a dog DNA identification program from
BioPet Vet Lab built on a scientific foundation, providing communities with a means to enforce community regulations for pet waste clean-up. āThe problem of pet owners not picking up after their pets is tearing apart communities,ā says BioPet Vet Lab CEO Tom Boyd.
Consumer Reports lists ādog poopā as one of the nationās top ten personal gripes. So BioPet Vet Lab used its research in animal DNA identification systems to help provide community leaders with a tool to bring peace back to the neighborhood. (
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How does watching a football game land you in court facing wiretapping charges?
You’re a former police detective. Your accuser is a former judge.
Care to judge this one yourself?
If you have the time… (
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P.S. Wiretapping is a McGuffin.
“300” writer Michael Gordon has sold a spooky surveillance project to NBC. The idea was spawned by the controversial U.S electronic eavesdropping apparatus ECHELON, a program that supposedly captures virtually all data signals for analysis at a central hub in West Virginia.
These millions of video, audio and data files are then disseminated to various federal and local law enforcement agencies for further investigation.
Now here’s the twist from the show’s logline: “There is, however, less than 1% of the data that nobody wants to touch. These are the classified video files that seem to have captured the unexplainable.”
The show will center on a fictional team called G.H.O.S.T. (Global Hierarchical Observation Strategy Taskforce) whose assignment it is to investigate this paranormal data. (more)
