http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197 Discussion about: Top 10 Barely-Legal Gadgets for the Modern Spy http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197#comment146576 ]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 20:15:59 PST http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197#comment135658 Great page.]]> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:20:34 PST http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197#comment133501 that are really cool are rc airplaines with an integrated wireless camera. As well as devices to protect your own phone communications.
Not to mention cell phone spy software to hear the conversations on a cell phone from anywhere around the world. Most of these things can be found at http://www.spy-equipment-buying-guide.com]]> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:56:19 PST http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197#comment129363
As several people here have observed, people should indeed be careful to check the legality of a given device in their respective jurisdictions, and even if it is legal there, to check in advance before taking it into another state or country. (For example, I live in Thailand, and it's virtually impossible for a private person, even a citizen, to obtain permission to possess, let alone own, any handgun.)

Years ago I worked in first law enforcement then in security in Texas. At the time, lockpicks were against the law to own without a license to be a locksmith *and* actually working in that field -- the license alone wasn\'t enough. Otherwise, having one was a felony offense, as I recall.

Also, I had a professional \"burglar bar\" when I was in security patrol, the flat type you could slide in between a car window and the frame to hook the bar you can pull up to unlock the door. One night I bumped into a police officer friend and we had coffee together. When we left, she discovered she had locked her keys in her squad car. Mr. Handy here helpfully got my burglar bar out of my own patrol car and unlocked her door. I wasn\'t thinking about the illegality until she reminded me of it -- not as a threat, but as a caution.

And lasers. I don\'t recall all the details, but a few years ago I read about some guy in the States -- Pennsylvania, I think -- who pointed one of those small laser pointers into the eyes of a police officer on patrol. The officer booked him on assault charges -- and they stuck. I have a couple here (and they are legal) but I would be hesitant to point them at anyone, especially at their eyes.

Finally, someone said he\'d like to see anyone recover data from his hard drive after he used an oxy-acetylene torch on it. A few years ago I read somewhere online that a Mafia guy got arrested and his computer was confiscated. The story said he had had advance warning, so in an effort to eliminate information, he heated the drive up to near molten, then dropped it into liquid nitrogen, shattering it. The story said the F.B.I. labs couldn\'t extract anything from it -- but that some other secret agency\'s wizard\'s retrieved enough for a federal court to send him on a long, long holiday courtesy the feds. I don\'t know if that\'s true, only that it\'s what I read.

BTW, this is the first time I\'ve visited this site, but I\'ll be visiting regularly.

Thanks!

Mekhong Kurt
Bangkok, Thailand]]> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:42:47 PST http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197#comment128792 ]]> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:44:27 PST http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197#comment128548 ]]> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:35:18 PST http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197#comment128523 Well, let me start off by saying your work is truelly complexual. i am perplexed that you have intreaged me to this period of self satisfactury belief in the comprehension of your article about the amusing gizmos of the modern mediocore, amature spy hobbie. this reminds me of the text in the bible: exodus chapter 13 verse 5 "so, when the lord has brought you into the land of the canaanites, the hittites, the amorites, the hivites, and the jebusites which he swore to your fathers to give you. A land flowing with milk and honey you shall observe in this month the following practice" Amen. do you understand the sperattic conflication of the imorsal timeline of the connection to the past of the present tabirnaacl of the lebright tiscal year. thank you again for your article.
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morris ]]> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:38:38 PST http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197#comment125633 ]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:17:06 PST http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197#comment125178 ]]> Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:58:09 PST http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197#comment123729
Look for some of this stuff to show up in the Parker Chronicles, also on Triond at http://www.authspot.com/writers/CPerry%20and%20Ann.22488

Ann - co-writer of the Parker Chronicles]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:31:30 PST