Spy Review

There have been quite a few different types of gadgets that have come to the market designed to be an alternative means to the traditional ways of apprehending a suspect, this net shooter seems a good idea on paper, but it has certain limitations that would deem it unreliable for such use.

The net shooter works bit like a gun so anyone should be able to fire with a good level of accuracy after some practice. It uses the air to generate power for shooting. The net shooter itself is quite well designed piece of equipment that is slim and pretty light so can be carried around quite easily. It can fire a distance up to 15 metres and the net itself is up to 3 feet in diameter thus casting a wide shadow over the assailant.

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There are situations when you need to store away an important key or some other form of entry that can only be accessed in an emergency. It may be a key to a door, safe or even a password to a system. While it may not be prudent to stop access to them altogether, nonetheless, the access should be left to a designated person(s) who can use it in case of an emergency. It also stops a key being misused or running the risk of it being copied.

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Wired CCTV camera systems have been around for years. There are many sophisticated boxes that you can buy that allow you to see many video cameras at once. Some computer-based camera systems can give you 16 windows from 16 different surveillance cameras at once! The Quad 2.4GHz Wireless Camera Receiver gives you the capability to see 4 spy cameras at the same time, but of the wireless variety.

What’s the significance of this? It is very unusual to find a wireless camera receiver that allows you to view all four camera channels simultaneously. Most other wireless receiver solutions only allow you to view a single camera channel at a time, and therefore the best they achieve is to just cycle through each camera channel.

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There are a lot of different types of devices available to defend a home against burglary, from the high-tech video surveillance systems to the common burglar alarms and many other solutions in between. Some work better than others. This is a quite novel one and could work just as well in preventing a burglary. It is an electronic dog barking alarm.

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Having a laptop stolen can expose vital information that can be used and manipulated by crooks. Despite recent high profile cases of stolen laptops, people continue to lose them either as a result of being stolen or through carelessness on the part of the owner.

Although passwords are installed on operating systems, networks and other important applications, these can be hacked by the more determined thieves. Encryption has been the main way to combat data theft till now, a new system of protecting laptops uses slightly different methods, however.

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Pickpocketing is rife on busy streets and public transport such as the underground; in most cases people are totally oblivious that they have been subjected to theft only to realise long after it has occurred. It’s not just theft, many people also lose their belongings by dropping them.

Some pickpockets are very well-skilled and can even steal from people that have taken good deal of care to safeguard their belongings.

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One of our recent reviews was a password manager of a different kind. That particular device was a biometric solution, this is a more standard fare, but not necessary any less secure.

The Mandylion password storage device hopes to make the task of remembering passwords a little less taxing.

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The device is Eikon Digital Privacy Manager from Upek. It is a biometric security solution that bypasses the need for creating passwords. It uses fingerprint technology to provide access to accounts which would otherwise require entering passwords manually to log in. Although fingerprint technology as a concept is not radically new, it certainly is for the purpose of password management for the consumer market.

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