There are a number of companies that offer power strips with
microphones, video cameras, with or within a radio transmitter. A
camera can be configured to squirt video up the unused pair on the
LAN, audio can be back-fed up the cable TV connection, and what may
appear to be protecting your computer may actually be transmitting
all your LAN signals to an eavesdropper a half mile away.
-jma
At 10:56 PM 7/5/2007, d..._at_geer.org wrote:
>Forgive me the likely obvious nature of this
>question, but we moved our offices today and
>I got a shiny new powerstrip with a place to
>plug in the phone cord (surge protector) and
>so I ask if powerstrips of this sort are not
>the perfect bugging device ... you naturally
>plug the telephone into them, they have lots
>of dead space internally with power handy, &
>they are directly attached to copper leading
>back to unvisited rooms. You can even buy a
>powerstrip with an ethernet port (so you can
>powercycle a machine remotely), though those
>don't seem to do telephone surge protection.
>
>File under "hiding in plain view?"
>
>--dan, amateur
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