Do you need to conduct a top secret surveillance, but lack the skills needed of an expert PI? You can compensate your limited skills through of modern technological means which will assist you to meet your goals. Some modern methods can be very useful even if they cost as high as the twin towers.
1) Landline and mobile phones — Phone line tapping is a widespread means for surveillance, illegal or legal. Phone companies are bound to feed tapping lines for security services and police. Mobile phones can provide call details, time and location of the target when needed. Although tapping is legally used for high profile cases, illegal phone taps still abound.
2) Postal Services — Interception of postal communications are decreasing as more people is using faxes and emails. However, this is not true for all, some countries largely depends on the snail mail for important communications and some confidential messages are preferably sent thru the old letter on envelope.
3) Bug Installation — Are small devices usually inserted on an electronic device to record conversations as a way to acquire information mainly for surveillance. These bugs are user-friendly, it usually needs a radio transmitter to transmit voice data. Nowadays, even tv pictures can be bugged thru video cameras attached with the bug.
4) Computer Surveillance — One of the most popular forms to steal information is thru this device. Anyone who has access to computers especially the internet is capable of viewing and getting information. You can install a software, attach a bug or intercept radio transmissions from a computer and this will become a powerful surveillance means. Connection to the internet makes your computer vulnerable to identity theft and illegal surveillance.
5) Photography — Very valuable surveillance method is the use of still and video surveillance solutions to capture all angles of visual evidence. Some CCTV design guide specifies advances is in CCTV that enabled images to match those that are stored in local database. If you have a good taste for security camera selection, make sure to opt for CCTV designed ones. Government security agencies use this capability to scare people and grab needed information for public security.
6) Electronic Trails — These are commonly used in profiling a target, trails left from the use of credit and debit cards, atm, phone calls and phone cards will generate an electronic pattern that will tell the investigator about the nature of your work, identify your name, important bank account numbers and the like. There is a widespread use of softwares that gather this information which are normally sold to security agencies or government intelligence companies.
