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Disclaimer: The photos shown or depicted in this folder were provided to me by others or are
photos of devices I had built many years ago when it was legal. Any and all information (images) presented in this forum is for the explicit purpose of educating TSCM Practitioners and/or persons working to protect & retain information.
If you are considering trying to
purchase, sell or use such devices, you should become intimate with Title 18, Section 2512
of the US Code. Read and heed.
Many of these are fairly common items you may encounter around your home or office which could be used to transmit your conversations outside your area of privacy. Others were built with the express intention of being used for electronic eavesdropping.
They are provided to depict what you may have to be concerned about when it comes to your privacy or the privacy of your corporate or government agency/officers/personnel.
- DO NOT BUILD THEM!
- DO NOT BUY THEM!
- DO NOT USE THEM!
IF YOU SHOULD ENCOUNTER SOMETHING REMOTELY RESEMBLING ANY OF THESE DEVICES, ESPECIALLY IN AN AREA WHERE YOU WOULD NOT EXPECT TO FIND SUCH AN ITEM, CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND/OR THE FBI!!!
As a strict interpretation of Title 18, Section 2512, the mere possession of a handful of resistors, capacitors, diodes, wire, etc., and a battery could land one in jail. It has been stated (and proven on occasion) that by dropping a number of electronic components onto a table top and soldering them together as they fell can result in the manufacture of a device capable of transmitting a radio frequency signal. It will probably be a very short range device, but IS a transmitter.
Unintentional? Yes.
Illegal? Depends on who interprets the law and if they want to make an example of you.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2512.html
Title 18, Sec. 2512.
Manufacture, distribution, possession, and advertising of wire, oral, or electronic communication intercepting devices prohibited
STATUTE
- Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, any person who intentionally -
- sends through the mail, or sends or carries in interstate or foreign commerce, any electronic, mechanical, or other device, knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device
renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications;
- manufactures, assembles, POSSESSES, or sells any electronic, mechanical, or other device, knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications, and that such device or any component thereof has been or will be sent through the mail or transported in interstate or foreign commerce; or
- places in any newspaper, magazine, handbill, or other publication any advertisement of - (THIS INCLUDES WEBSITES)
- any electronic, mechanical, or other device knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of wire,
oral, or electronic communications; or
- any other electronic, mechanical, or other device, where such advertisement promotes the use of such device for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of wire, oral, or electronic
communications, knowing or having reason to know that such advertisement will be sent through the mail or transported in interstate or foreign commerce, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Every day of possession is a separate count.
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