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SNOOPING, ANYONE? – VINTAGE SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT FROM THE 50’S, 60’S & 70’S
Hound Dog Bug Detector And Phone Sweep Unit, 1950’s/1960’s The Hound Dog Bug Detector And Phone Sweep was state of the art portable countermeasures for the 1960’s. If you owned a set, almost every detective agency in town wanted to see it and “barrow them.” They were made by R. B. Clifton and cost what would be about $2000.00 for the set by today’s standards. The Hound Dog was a portable RF bug detector which is shown on the left. The Phone Sweep was a tone sweeper that would let you remotely sweep a phone to turn on any hidden microphones which the unit could then detect. This was state-of-the-art…
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HOW SPYWARE ON RENTAL PCs CAPTURED USERS’ MOST INTIMATE MOMMENTS
HOW SPYWARE ON RENTAL PCs CAPTURED USERS’ MOST INTIMATE MOMMENTS: As its name suggests, PC Rental Agent was designed to streamline the administration of computers offered by rent-to-own stores, which sell or rent furniture, appliances, and other merchandise to consumers, often in exchange for weekly payments until they are paid off. By default, the program includes functionality that allows store employees to wipe PC hard drives at the press of a key. The feature is used to permanently remove confidential data left by one customer before the machine is given to a new customer. PC Rental Agent also includes a “kill switch”…
