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does anyone know where these are planned to be installed? or does anyone know how a concerned citizen might find out where?

New Business,

You do get metalised thick and thin weave cloth and clothes for protecting against EMF radiation (  http://www.swiss-shield.ch/en/gardinen.htm ). You also get tin-foil wallpaper, and tellingly Bush had the Whitehouse done out in it, conspiracy-loon that he is. You also get translucent foil window and metalised sprays and tapes.

Some of these products were developed for workers safety, or for electro-hypersensitive people and some specifically for data security ( your keyboard, computer screen and modem all generate fields that can be read remotely using bog-standard equipment).

To act as a faraday cage rather than a partial shield though each of the strips of shielding would have to be in conductive contact and preferably earthed, and you'd want to test it to make sure it is secure.

A better business idea may be to offer a service measuring relative field strengths around peoples homes and workplaces and then offering solutions. For instance, you wouldn't want your children sleeping next to an analog electical clock or next to a WiFi or RF transmitter, neither would you want then sleeping next to your neighbours devices. It is estimated that 35% of people have mild electrosensitivity and in severe cases the symptoms include migraines and bleeding from limited exposure to strong fields.



Squirello,

I'm afraid I don't, maybe you could email blog@spy[dot]org[dot]uk and ask if they do. Or contact the manuacturers and patent holders, with a gun to their heads. The University of St. Andrews springs to mind.

Most of the relevant manufacturers and government agency web pages have been 'disappeared' since this blog was published. In my own town all the lamp-posts, which were under 30 years old and seemingly in perfect working order, have just been replaced with newer futuristic ones at a far closer spacing.

One way to tell for sure would be to get hold of one of these scanners but that isn't going to be easy. There is no doubt this will corrupt the people who use them if they aren't already corrupted, CCTV operators have already been imprisoned for looking in womens windows and if you look at CCTV cameras in public spaces many of them are trained on private residences for reasons that cannot be innocent.

Do you remember in the back of kids comics you could send away bubble-gum wrappers for X-Ray specs, and the advert for them portrayed a child looking through womens clothing ? I wonder how many millions of kids sent away for them - not me, I sent away for the flick-comb and the invisible ink. I know cops and I know how much time they spend on the midnight shift watching confiscated porn.

You deserve to be horse-whipped
But I've no horse - that joke's so shit
And whips would only make it worse
Don't tempt the lonely and perverse
The casualties of casual sex
The child of three with X-ray specs
The conman low in self esteem
The Casanova in your dreams
I'll scream and scream and scream until
I've made myself critically ill
In hospital, in case you're there
In uniform, intensive care
I know you'll be the death of me
But what a cool death that would be
I'd rather die than be deprived
Of Wonderbras and thunder thighs

It's surprising that Van Eck phreaking hasn't been touched upon on UK Indymedia before now, there are lot's of good articles on other IM sites. Wim van Eck is a Dutch geek who in 1985 proved you could read at a great distance the data of someones screen, using a TV and $15 of equipment. Try it at home, read your neighbours PC screens and then blush when you realise what you have been broadcasting around your home town - so much for that expensive firewall and convoluted password !

Reading keyboards remotely requires more expensive scanners and therefore rarer but all the information is out there should your victim have an insulated screen. If they have isolated their keyboard sufficiently, they have probably also got their modem in a metal ox as the cheapest scanner or high-end radio can listen in to modem emissions and be plugged directly into their PC. But they've probably forgotten the modem/phone cables. Phreaking leaks didn't start with WiFi.

Anyone who has used the term 'tin-foil hats' in a derogatory fashion on this site is either an agent trying to get you to lower your guard or a complete dunce.

It's good that you are angry about this, but your anger is wasted if you aim it at individual cops, disparate groups like the SWP or IM, or at an entire class. Now, if you want to stop this and punish the people responsible, or just roll back the police state, there are a couple of different strategies.

One, peacefully publicly shame the cops and politicians into refusing to do this - I'd suggest naked protests outside parliaments, police-station, manufacturers and the participating universities with banners saying stuff like 'You can see us naked but leave the kids alone you perverts'. It would be interesting to see them try to argue in court that we can't be naked when they are photographing us naked.

Two, if you are up for a bit of aggro, find out the names and addresses of engineers and scientists that are developing this and 'persuade' them to release further details on where it is being being built, trialled and installed. And then smash it up.

Published an article in the early 1980's.Computers were in their infancy but they showed how to remote view a crt monitor using a tv ariel and a long wave radio reciever.The ariel was simply pointed at the computer and the radio was placed on top of the tv set the ariel was connected to.The radio was placed on top of the tv set and tuned to the middle of the longwave band.

Whether we protest or not, the X-ray camera scheme will be/has been installed.

We will never know... How did we come to this? Why do we allow it?

Nb, you're right, Van Eck was simply the first person to publish a scientific paper on an established practice, so it is surprising people still don't know about it two decades on.

"How did we come to this? "
Via having 1 CCTV for every 14 people in this country, and no ethics classes in our technical universities.

"Why do we allow it? "
I don't know why but I do know how - by saying things like "Whether we protest or not". We have to protest, and up until now it was too hard to get peoples support. Now they are videotaping our kids naked it should be the incentive for some people to realise that the police state has overstepped the bounds of decency. If you aren't up for stripping off how about we gang up on some politicians or police and forceably strip them off in public ?

Dangerous offenders are classified by the gravity of their crimes and their liklihood to re-offend.

Why is John Reid and home office not classifying all paedophiles as the dangerous offenders that they are? Is he part of the nonse brigade?

What nation would see fit for their children to be indiscriminantly viewed naked by a bunch of filthy perverted police?

The English nation needs to get a grip and hold this government accountable for their perverted ways.

Charity Sweet
XXX

The influential tabloid newspaper The Sun, had an interesting report yesterday, with the front page headline

 http://spyblog.org.uk/images/sun_headline_300.jpg

We have been commenting on the implications these sort of "see through your Children's clothes" imaging systems for some time- see our archive Passive Millimetre Wave Radar or other "see under your clothes" imaging

See also, specifically, Lampposts in the 21st Century

The Sun has an article on Page 9, illustrated with "naked" pseudo images of adult volunteers from the US manufacturers of one model of this sort of equipment, which are about 4 years old (according to the EXIF meta data copyright info in the online images) . Today's and future versions of this equipment could provide even more detailed images, at longer range.
:

You are undie surveillance

By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON
Political Editor
January 29, 2007


OFFICIALS are bracing themselves for a storm of public outrage over their controversial X-ray cameras scheme.

As part of the most shocking extension of Big Brother powers ever planned here, lenses in lampposts would snap “naked” pictures of passers-by to trap terror suspects.

The proposal is contained in leaked documents drawn up by the Home Office and presented to PM Tony Blair’s working group on Security, Crime and Justice.


Home Office documents presented to a Prime Ministerial working group, which have been leaked to The Sun ?

Is this a genuine "whistleblowing" attempt, or is this a "let's test the water of media and public reaction" to these ideas ?

But the prospect of the State snooping on individuals’ most private parts is certain to spark national fury.

We certainly hope that the public will vent its fury electorally.

And officials are battling to find a way of dealing with that reaction.

A January 17 memo seen by The Sun discusses the cameras, which can see through clothes.

It says “detection of weapons and explosives will become easier” and says cameras could be deployed in street furniture.

It adds: “Some technologies used in airports have already been used as part of police operations looking for drugs and weapons in nightclubs. These and others could be developed for a much more widespread use in public spaces.

There is no justification for deployment of even "normal" CCTV surveillance cameras , hidden in "street furniture" like Lamp Posts or Phone Booths etc.

Doing so in secret, loses any chance of there being a deterrent effect.

There is no excuse for such "mass surveillance", which is a waste of resources, compared with specifically targeted surveillance, limited to a particular criminal or intelligence investigation.

“Street furniture could routinely house detection systems that would indicate the likely presence of a gun, for example.”

Unless this is part of a real time monitoring system, linked to armed police or military personnel nearby, then what is the point of indicating "the likely presence of a gun" ?

If there are armed Police or soldiers nearby, how many innocent people are going to be shot on the authorisation of an imperfect "see through your clothes" image ?


But the document goes on to reveal fears at the public reaction.

Officials have agreed one solution would be to allow only women to monitor female subjects — although they admit this would be “very problematic” in crowds.

That is not acceptable.How do you isolate male and female images when pointing these systems at a crowd of people, rather than in an orderly airport security check situation which is the clear implication of mounting such equipment in "street furniture".

How is this acceptable for viewing naked images of Children ?

The memo says: “The social acceptability of routine intrusive detection measures and the operational response required in the event of an alarm are likely to be limiting factors.

“Privacy is an issue because the machines see through clothing.”

Beside cameras, officials are also considering systems known as millimetre wave imaging and THz imaging and spectroscopy.

All are routinely used in airports and other secure places to detect explosives and weapons in luggage and on people.

None of these are yet routinely used at airports, some experimental trials have taken place at some airports.

Air passengers are now chosen at random for full X-ray examinations — and must agree to it.

Under what legal power in the UK can you be compelled to submit to a forced X-Ray (external) search, rather than a manual "pat down" search ? None that we are aware of.

Technology could also be used to halt theft, with fingerprint scanners fitted to many items.

How exactly can "fingerprint scanners" prevent "theft" ?

Elsewhere, tagged offenders could be sent electronic pulses to remind them not to re-offend.

"electronic pulses" ? Is that meant to be electric shocks or is it the dubious idea of an audible warning or automated SMS mobile phone calls, when the electronic tag is approaching an inaccurately defined "forbidden zone" or boundary ?

Cops would also get the power to build a database of everyone in the land. Three-dimensional CCTV pictures would be coupled with records of people’s mobile phones and even their travel cards to get details of their movements and habits.

Facial recognition systems to help track individuals’ movements are also being considered.

 g.pascoewatson@the-sun.co.uk

Who exactly is proposing these evil ideas to the Government ? How much money do they stand to make from promoting such unproven, and unnecessary technological "magic fixes" to social problems ?

Are the NuLabour Politicians so desperate to cling on to power,that they will throw our public money at such schemes, and further compromise our freedoms and liberties, simply in order to Be Seen To Be Doing Something ?

There is also a Sun Editorial comment:

X-ray spies

THE prospect of X-ray cameras at every street corner is truly terrifying.

If that’s not Big Brother, we don’t know what is.

Ministers are right to do everything to protect us from terrorists.

But we draw the line at such an invasion of privacy — and privates.

Does this mean that the powerful Rupert Murdoch media empire is starting to take the idea of the NuLabour Surveillance State seriously ?

There is an obvious tie in with the "story about the "winner" of the television voyeurism show "Big Brother".

Strangely, for newspaper obsessed with campaigns against child molesters, The Sun does not seem to have twigged that all these "see through your clothes" surveillance technologies are also in fact "see through your Children's clothes" systems as well.

If they were ever deployed in the UK in public places, they would fall foul of the draconian Child Pornography laws..There is no "national security" exemption from the Sexual Offences Act 2003 section 45 Indecent photographs of persons aged 16 or 17 , which raised the age limit for the definition of a Child, with respect to child porn images or pseudo-images, from 16 to 18 years of age.

Secretly taking such images of people without their explicit, informed consent, such as happens in the "voluntary" trials of this expensive equipment at some airports or railway stations, is also likely to fall foul of the Data Protection Act and of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and the Human Rights Act, unless, of course, the Home Office forces through Primary Legislation regarding these surveillance technologies.

Other blogs which comment on this story in The Sun:

* geeklawyer

* Bloggerheads

* Ideal Government

not much more really...

as a Police Sex offender manager- i must say that this is the funniest and most odd
article i have ever read on the net,,,

Elvis still alive too?

Loch Ness monster?

fairies?

aliens?

lol...


mad as fish the lot...

you manage perverts in the police force?

you must be overworked!

the old wipe out all the wavebands spark transmitter.