Articles Books and Other Resources

While hardly the definitive library on surveillance and surveilance countermeasures, the articles books and reports listed below should give the reader greater insight into both surveillance and surveillance counermeasures. Most of the materials listed are TSCM specific, but a command of telecommunications, radio theory and other technical fields is important for understanding what goes on in TSCM. There are other excellent references on the web, though some authors are shy of public attention and asked that their materials not be listed. They can be tracked down through a websearch or through Granite Island Group's list of recomeded TSCM companies.
 


Articles


Granite Island Group
 

  • Warning Signs You Are Being Bugged

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    Marty Kaiser
     

  • A Surveillance Primer This is without question a phenomenal article on surveilance and countermeasures.
  • Product instruction sheets These are brief online manuals for many of the countermeasures products that Marty Kaiser sells. Some are surprisingly informative.

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    TSCI
     

  • The TSCM Handbook : Neat, if a little vague.

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  • TEMPEST in a Teapot: Excelent practical advice on defending your site against TEMPEST monitoring.

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  • Outside Loop Distribution Plant: An excellent guide to the wiring between you and the phone company.

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    Books


  • The Phone Book: An excellent introduction to telephone surveilance and countermeasurs.

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  • Don't Bug Me: A good general introduction to technical surveillance.

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  • Covert Surveillance and Electronic Devices: A good reference for telephone compromises, but not much else. Some info on body wires.

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  • Anything by Lee Lapin: Forget about it... overpriced picture books.

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  • Eletronic Surveillance Devices: An excellent reference for surveilance and countersurveillance. Includes many good circuits. NOTE: This is a British book, so make sure what you're reading is applicable to the country you're in.

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  • How to Build a Bug-Proof Room

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  • The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing: Digital Signal Processing is the swiss army knife of surveillance.

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  • Understanding Telephone Electronics

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    Mailing Lists

  • TSCM-L: This is another Granite Island list, speciffically for TSCM professionals. Read all you like, but posting is probably a bad idea.




    • Newsgroups

    alt.security.tscm: A wasteland.

    alt.private.investigator: A total zoo.

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