Man arrested after spy camera found inside bathroom radio

22/04/2013 15:14

A man is in jail after a woman realized there was something wrong with his bathroom radio.The man, 59-year-old Kevin Esparza, was taken to jail Tuesday night. Police say his house guest was plugging her phone into the speakers in the bathroom when she saw an SD card.

"She investigated a little further and noticed it was a spy camera," explained Officer Matt Porter of the San Antonio Police Department. "She took the SD card, put it in her computer, and found images of herself."A falcon spy camera sounds like something right out of James Bond or even Get Smart. However, that’s the rumor that flew around after a dead falcon was found outfitted with a small device — described as a spy gadgets possible spy camera — that came complete with a 10 inch antenna.

An anonymous officer working for India’s Border Security Force told the AFP press service that an investigation was being carried out to see if it was part of a spy attempt by neighboring Pakistan. Indian armed forces frequently carry out military exercises in the desert region near the dsd43DS ancient fort city of Jaisalmer.

With a little ingenuity, a group of hackers has turned a high-end Canon EOS-1D X camera into a remote surveillance tool that can remotely upload, download, or erase images.

One of the researchers disclosed this at the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday, tech site PC World reported.“If a photographer uses an insecure network like a hotel Wi-Fi network or a Starbucks network, than almost anybody with a little bit of knowledge is able to download images from the camera,” said German security researcher Daniel Mende of ERNW.

“You could for instance make yourself the author of a photo. That spy gadgets would come in handy when you try to sell them,” Mende added.

While I don’t expect the average soldier on patrol to know the difference between a saker and a peregrine falcon, I might ask if he could tell the difference between a GPS transmitter and a camera.

The Times of India had a much less exciting explanation for the falcon in question — and they said the device was indeed a transmitter, not a spy camera.