spy week
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Build A Laser Microphone To Eavesdrop On Conversations Across The Street
Laser microphones are often seen as the pinnacle of spy technology as you don’t have to install a transmitter to hear what’s going in a building. Instead a laser beam is projected onto a window and bounced back — sound waves from the voices in the target room are picked up with the laser beam…
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These Lockpick Cufflinks Get You Out Of Tough Spots
The Sparrows UNCUFF LINK cufflinks look like normal accessories when they’re in your sleeves, but pop them out and you can use them to unlock and open any pair of standard handcuffs, thanks to the key engineered into the body. We’re not going to ask how you got into those cuffs in the first place,…
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How To Choose And Maintain A Cover Identity
In the movies, right after a spy loads up on gadgets, they get their “secret identity”: the person they should pretend to be to get behind enemy lines or into the villain’s lair. Intelligence professionals call this a “cover”, and it serves multiple purposes, one of which being to hide the operative’s true identity and…
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How To Plant A Dead Drop (Without Everyone Finding It)
When spies need to make sure their colleagues get a package or a signal without anyone else knowing, they leave a dead drop in a specific location and trust that another spy — ideally the one they need to communicate with — will retrieve the package. You don’t have to be a spy to make…