SpyGearCo: Spy and Surveillance

Wouldn’t you like to know what happens when you leave your child in someone else’s care? A small wireless nanny cam is the perfect way to keep watch over the nanny, whether you’re home or at work.

Cameras are everywhere now. If you don’t want to be taped then you can’t leave your house. Cameras don’t always have to be hidden. Nanny cameras can act as a deterrent if a babysitter or nanny knows that they are being monitored.

A Nanny cam is not a substitute for a real babysitter, as emergency events require immediate human intervention. Nanny cameras are clandestine video camera which effectively monitors and records all the activities without letting the person know that he/she is being watched.

Many Nanny Cams require a cable connected to your PC so you can only monitor the room with the PC! Unlike an alarm system, which is triggered by someone breaking into your house.

Parents like to watch the baby to grow strong, healthy, and powerful. Hoping for the best, parents will name the baby with powerful names. Parents find them especially helpful when it comes to keeping an eye on the person watching their children. But are hidden spy cams fair to those who are being watched?

Parents who suspect their children are being mistreated or neglected should immediately dismiss the nanny. Warning signs that parents should be aware of include changes in behavior, changes in eating patterns, aggression, excessive bruising and scratching, and regression developmentally.

Hidden nanny cameras are so small they are virtually invisible to a naked eye. Hidden cameras now look like clocks, DVD players, books and even plants. If you’re recording your caregiver covertly, hiding the camera is as simple as choosing a camera that looks at home in your home, whether that be an air freshener or a potted fern. Hidden cameras have a number of benefits and can help give parents the peace of mind that their children are being properly cared for. If you are concerned and suspect your child is not being properly treated, get a hidden camera.

Hidden wireless nanny cam system is a low cost way to ensure your children are in safe hands. It is also a great way to make sure babysitters are not inviting others over to your house while you are away.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, August 30th, 2008 at 9:24 am and is filed under Hidden Cameras, Spy Cam, Video Surveillance Systems. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Employee theft is one of the most pervasive problems faced by businesses today, and it continues to escalate at an estimated rate of 15 percent per year. This volume presents the first full-length guide to the alternatives available to companies seeking to reduce both the actual theft of tangible property and the profits lost through cheating on time cards and expense accounts.

Employee theft is very common. Some retail industry studies have found that more than one third of all thefts from businesses were by employees.

Theft by employees can only be as successful as operators allow conditions for it to happen. With so many obstacles outside in the marketplace, no one should have to lose to an enemy inside their own store. Thieving employees will have a devastating impact on your business and fellow employees if left unchecked.

Goods stolen by employee’s account for over 41% of inventory shrinkage, while only 35% was attributed to shoplifting (Mullen 1). A reason for this is because companies started to direct their attention to and have successfully reduced shoplifting. Employee theft is a hot potato right now. If the actress Winona Ryder dominated the headlines in 2002 during her shoplifting trial, we’ve had more than a decade of headlines on white collar crime and employee theft, from Enron to Martha Stewart.

Internal investigations of this nature are often difficult to handle. Employing the services of an outside firm that specializes in Forensic Accounting is the only way to guarantee a swift and thorough resolution to a very difficult problem. Internal theft, the most prevalent problem facing businesses today, is taking an all-time toll financially and emotionally. Department of Commerce estimates that employee theft costs employers approximately one billion a week.

Employee’s who steal from their employer is more prominent than most business owners realize. The average business loses approximately 6% of revenue to fraud each year, and typically employees are to blame. Employee theft is one of the serious threats that a restaurant owner has to accept. Each year, there is an estimate of over $52 billion loss because of this reason. Employee theft is often cited as the most common type of theft within small businesses.

Retail employees admit to steal an average of $168 a year. They estimate the average co-worker steals $1000 a year. Retail employee thieves were most unhappy with the inadequate tasks and challenges of their work and the fact that their employers seemed not to care about them. In the hospital, employees who took property were most unhappy about their employer’s lack of caring, in addition to poor treatment by immediate supervisors and limited job responsibility. Retail store employees have a constant opportunity to steal cash or merchandise and all they need is the desire and sufficient motivation to do so. What keeps most employees honest is moral character, loyalty, respect for the law and their employer, and the desire to be viewed as trustworthy.

Business owners must be aware of these facts in order to detect employee theft. It is a common fact that most employers do not suspect their employees of theft. Business owners like to think that their employees are honest and care about the business almost as much as the owners do. Theft and dishonesty is only a problem for big business. Business owners who make frequent bank deposits substantially reduce their risk. If you handle a lot of cash, make deposits twice a day.

Employees can steal easily in many ways, with some examples being: not giving the customer a receipt and the correct change, giving back fictitious refunds, and pretending to ring up merchandise for friends. Prevention is key, but if you own a business and suspect that an employee is stealing from you, call the police. Employees steal for many reasons, and most explain it by rationalizing their actions, blaming the company for poor oversight or for providing easy opportunities to steal. Many blame management for setting a poor example.

Employees define what is right and wrong regarding their behavior, and they can rationalize stealing from their employer in their own minds. Thieves normally view themselves as average people in a dishonest world where everyone is just trying to get ahead or to maintain what they have. Employees responsible for accounting, bookkeeping and other financial functions should expect to be subject to a different, sometimes higher, level of oversight than their colleagues in other departments. They should welcome the additional scrutiny of your internal financial controls. Employees have to know and see that both doors are being taped with time and date.

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This entry was posted on Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 1:56 pm and is filed under Surveillance for Business, Video Surveillance Systems. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Laptop theft is the top 3 computer crimes along with virus and hacking, on a bigger picture, laptop theft is the second most common crime according to FBI. Laptop computer theft ranked second to viruses as the biggest computer crime that they had to deal with.

According to a report released by the Safeware Insurance Group , “approximately 387,000 notebook PCs were stolen in 2000, up about 20 percent from an estimated 319,000 in 1999.” Further, it was estimated that at least 57 percent of businesses in the year 2000 incurred losses from computer equipment theft. Stealing Laptops out of parked cars and conference rooms may grab headlines, but a far greater number of devices simply get left behind in places like cabs, subways, and airplanes. YouGetItBack DOT COM reports that La Guardia airport alone has accumulated more than 70,000 unclaimed laptops and PDAs in its lost and found.

Laptop portable computer theft is not limited to businesses or organizations, but in many instances laptops are stolen from individuals. These individuals may be contractors for businesses or just someone like you or me, who use our laptop regularly.

Protect your data and laptop against theft today. Laptop theft is a major problem on campus. One source says that over 600,000 laptops are stolen in the US each year.

Laptop theft is a real and growing problem across the country, and even a cursory glance at the signage in a public working place will give you some idea of the statistics involved. Once considered a daring crime only a few people had the gumption to pull off, laptop PC theft has been steadily increasing to become what it is today: the second most common form of crime in America after car theft. Laptop theft is a huge problem.

It is common nowadays to use a laptop to get work done away from your home or office. Laptop theft is rampant, some would say, because they are easy to take. Often because the theft is easy, and done by someone who has no idea what is on the laptop hard drive.

Stealing a Laptop is a crime of opportunity. Always keep the laptop at your side. Laptop computer theft is THE hot button security issue for 2008. Companies are facing huge liabilities from theft of corporate data when laptops are stolen. Laptop portable computer theft is a story that repeats everyday many times but this story is alarming.

Laptop theft is a common problem, laptops themselves are expensive items and the information contained on them is more than 10 times the value of the hardware alone. If you are the victim of laptop theft then you almost certainly run the risk of also becoming the victim of identity theft. Laptop theft is now a foreseeable threat. There are two ways the solution can be justified; the ROI makes sense and/or there is a mandate to address it. Laptop theft is probably second to bicycle theft in crimes on campus.

Think about it now. All it really takes is for an attacker to simply crack open the laptop or desktop, and extract the hard drive. Thin clients have software that connects to a network and starts a dedicated Web browser or remote desktop connection. The thin client computing device itself has no moving parts.

Security, of course, is not at the forefront of every employee’s mind. Indeed, people take dumb chances. SecureZIP’s data-centric technology protects the data itself, so even if the laptop is lost of stolen, the data is protected.

Users should have the make, model, and serial number available so police can file a complete report and enter the stolen laptop information immediately on the national crime information computer. If you have backed up all your data, all will not be lost for you. User opens / locks this vault by simple log-in and log-out controls. When data is saved to this vault, the industry-standard strongest AES 256 encryption hides this data for ultimate security. Users working at companies prone to IP theft can add another layer of laptop security. Data encryption tools require a secondary password to unscramble files or entire hard drives during each user session.

Protecting your data and laptop against theft today needs to be on everyone’s mind who owns one.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, August 17th, 2008 at 11:30 am and is filed under Apartment & Campus Security, Home Security. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Women are often more able to discuss such feelings with their friends. Men who have had a cheating spouse or unfaithful lover can feel the additional loss of status or manliness in these situations. Women are not nearly as inclined to engage in infidelity purely for the sexual gratification. They tend to select a partner that they feel is an upgrade?or somehow a better selection (i.e. Women don’t live to cheat. If a women decided to cheat either she had a good reason, not enough attention at home or for whatever the reason here is how men need to cope.

Infidelity always hurts someone and causes much unneeded animosity between couples. It’s best to be healthy minded spiritually and mentally so you won’t be tempted by lustful desires in the first place. Infidelity investigation therefore involves someone spending long hours parked outside your house, a hotel,a restaurant or your partner office just in the hope that they are in the right place at the right time. Be sure this is the path for you before you hire an investigator or else you could pin your hopes on something that is going to fall at the first hurdle!

The wife living next door or sitting at the next desk to you at work may not only cheat on her husband but may also be more than willing to talk about it. And not only to other friends but also on talk shows like Ricki Lake, Jerry Springer or in written articles in magazines. That’s a question that many people have asked themselves when they find out their spouse is cheating. That’s okay to a point. They’re original, alluring and fun games that capture your imagination and burn the fires of passion even hotter. Take a few minutes to learn how to grab these games.

Therefore, it becomes important for husbands to recognize certain warning signs that would confirm their wife’s infidelity, before it is too late. This may prove to be a little expensive, but it is quite reliable to get you the required proof to confront her with. The key to catching your cheating husband or cheating boyfriend is to learn to recognize the signs then .

Many men watch videos of a cheating wife who meets rich people over the internet to get fucked like crazy, but many times this is just fantacy aimed at getting you hot & bothered.

Women who suddenly clam up and make decisions behind your back are those who are inclined to be cooking up something more than your dinner. You will also find their interest in you wavering, and their enthusiasm to know about you forced, if not completely absent. Watch out for sudden changes in her pattern of phone usage and behavior. She may have got a new cell phone and gave you some excuse for it, may be she is receiving mysterious calls at unexpected times…or the very common clue is watch for her getting nervous when you unexpectedly walk in the room.

You need to observant enough to notice the warning signs of a wife that’s cheating. You can only confront her or give solution to the problem if you are really sure that she’s two-timing you. Or do you just want to turn good sex into outstanding sex? Just imagine the difference these things would make to your marriage or relationship! It is a sad reflection of the situation where there is such a strong and readily available market for products designed to catch people who are cheating.

You would think that an unhappy husband or wife would simply ask for a divorce to be with the one they love. However, you need to consider that most spouses do not want to lose the security of their home, possibly due to having children or even possessions. It can be power for up to 2 hours on 1 charge. Just enough time to record the verbal abuse. One passive (history) unit and one real time unit.

To catch a cheating wife, one must take some steps that sound underhanded, but if she is cheating, the man has the right to know. Asking a woman if she is cheating does not always evoke an honest answer. No sermons or relationship advice here. No women are from here and men are from there nonsense. Including the initial phone call setting him up, the actual sting and finishing with us waving goodbye to him at the Airport.

If you have concerns that your wife maybe cheating, then you can allay your fears with the following product.

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This entry was posted on Friday, August 8th, 2008 at 2:32 pm and is filed under Hidden Cameras, Video Surveillance Systems. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Parents should teach their kids driving recklessly is not the way to go. I was also a teen mom and believe me my kids will know how hard it was and still is. Parents often try to figure out the right way to make decisions by watching what other parents do. This isn’t always the best way to decide what is right for your pre-teen or adolescent.

Teen years are also a critical time for instilling good financial habits. If you instill good habits in them now, they will continue these habits into their adult lives. Teenage Girls bloom into women right before your eyes!  Teens must understand the basics of defensive driving. If they don’t, why should we let them behind the wheel?

Teens are about 2 times more likely to be in a crash than adults. Teenage rebellion is for the most part, is a very healthy thing. That is that we’re back to what the toddler was doing at age two.

Parents put their trust in the drivers of buses daily. But, the fact is that not every driver will always do as they should. Parents, teachers, and other authority figures influence the ideas we develop about ourselves, particularly when we are little kids. If parents spend more time criticizing than praising a child, it can be harder for a kid to develop good self-esteem.

Watch this Video on How this Teen was Caught Joy Riding by his mother!

Trackstick II GPS Data Logger and Super Trackstick are portable, can be carried on a belt, in a bag or purse or covertly installed. The job of passive tracking is done better, more cheaply, and more reliably than with cell phones.

Trackstick’s technology enables a continuously updated record of the exact route, stop times, speed and direction and other valuable information. The Super Trackstick even has its own built in temperature recorder to monitor and record its environment. Parents can then log into a secure website to see where that vehicle is traveling to, along with how fast the car is traveling, and what times. Thus, they can tell if junior skipped school during the middle of the day, or if he drove well over the speed limit, or drove to someplace he wasn’t supposed to.

User selectable features allow the record time to be changed from an interval of every 5 seconds, or from 1 minute to every 15 minutes.

Traveled locations can be shown via a red line that is traced on satellite photos and 3D terrain using the latest mapping technologies from Google Earth. Trackstick continuously records its exact route, stop times, speed, direction, and other valuable information, all of which can be quickly downloaded and viewed on your computer. TravelEyes is a GPS (Global Positioning System) automatic vehicle tracking system used for monitoring the travel activities of private vehicles. It automatically keeps track of your vehicle location, mileage, speed, and more — and saves time and money!

Tracking yourself for fun to see where you went or to make it easy to retrace your steps when you loose something.  I suppose that could be a use of it, if you can accurately find exact coordinates by looking at the earth, or your carpet. Trackstick’s technology enables a continuously updated record history of the exact route, stop times, speed and direction. All information can easily be downloaded to your computer via the included USB cable and quickly viewed on Google Earths 3D model of the planet . Track just about anyone or anything.

The Super Trackstick even has its own built in temperature recorder to monitor and record its environment. Tracksticks are tiny GPS data loggers capable of continuously recording their own location histories for extended periods of time. The Trackstick Pro can be hard wired, covertly installed or run off of the included cigarette lighter plug.

Tracking family members: As mentioned at the beginning, you can use the TrackStick to monitor the movements of your family members, including your children and your spouse. All you need to do is place the device in their car or in their bag and you can get a complete record of where they’ve been, how much time they spent at a particular person’s home etc. Tracksticks are tiny GPS data loggers capable of continuously recording their own location histories for extended periods of time. These devices are either battery powered, hard wired or can run off of an included cigarette lighter plug.

Data also can be viewed using Google Earth mapping capabilities. Recording intervals can be adjusted from every 5 sec. Dataloggers are great and have a screen with maps and and interface. And the maps are easily swapped or changed.

Location histories can also be exported to the following maps: * Microsoft streets and trips * encarta And many other third party mapping programs. The design Dimensions:4.10″ x 1.20″ x 0.87″ Weight:1.5 oz. Location information is delivered via password-protected web sites featuring digital map displays.

Recorded data includes date, time, location, speed, heading, altitude and the length and location of any stops.

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