In our current times, many people have the attitude that “I have nothing to hide, so I don’t care about privacy.” This is the perfect example of ignorance and conditioning in our modern society that puts you more at risk than ever! Someone COULD be watching, listening and recording your every move with nefarious intentions. Its worth remembering if “big brother” can do it the average person probably can also but to a lesser extent. I want to help you to protect yourself and teach you about some basic technology that exists that the average person is unaware of, so that you know what to look for and how to protect yourself from the eavesdroppers, robbers, hackers and creeps that are all around us.

Who would spy on you? You get a glimpse from the end of that last paragraph but let’s dive a little deeper to actual occurrences and instances where people do this sort of thing. The first and most prevalent is the Creeps, pervs, voyeurs and scum bags who target random individuals for visuals for their own personal use and/or to share on pornographic websites. This group of people often use programs designed to spy on you through your laptop and desktop cameras which usually are set up on a desk and have a view of an entire room. Often people do not cover the lens and have no problem changing, getting undressed and even having sex in a room with an open computer with nothing covering the camera lens. Just imagine next time that there very well could be some creep sitting at a computer in your own hometown or across the country watching your every move in intimate detail. To make that thought a little scarier, they usually know details about your life such as names, interests, significant other names, addresses etc. These can be used for a ton of criminal and heinous reasons such as blackmail and even for a psychopath who imagines a connection and has very ill intentions. This type of spying is typically done by a stranger who is a little more tech savvy than your average person or is done by a hacker to sell these images and laptop connections through bidding etc. It is not uncommon for these people to list on the black market, deep web or various web sites things such as “Hot college blonde webcam” or “Average girl who is naked a lot web cam” and sell these connections to the highest bidder.

The next group of people I would like to address is what I call “The Buggers” these are your hidden camera spy’s and listening device spy’s who usually are local to the area. These people are often perverts and robbers. The hidden cameras are usually used by perverts who get their jollies on unsuspecting people by planting tiny hidden cameras in bathrooms, changing rooms, hotels etc. A quick internet search of tiny hidden camera will yield you a bunch of results to show you what to look out for. A popular and cheap place people buy these from are Ebay® which has a lot of creative cameras that are very inexpensive shipped from china.

The other group of “The Buggers” are robbers, spouses, friends and teenagers. These people typically are trying to catch a cheating spouse, planning a robbery, trying to get gossip or teenagers experimenting for fun. This group typically uses a “Bug” or a listening device just like in spy movies. The thing most people do not realize is how cheap and common “Bugs” are, the picture below shows a $0.99 “Bug” or FM Transmitter bought from Ebay®.