With the recent uproar owing to the phone hacking scandal in the UK, hacking has become an increasingly risky proposition for nosy journalists, who are resorting to old fashioned spy gadgets to poke into the lives of other people.
It seems that now the journalists can fulfil their long standing desires to pretend that they are a secret spy no less than James Bond, secretly following people and using their hi-tech spy gadgets. No more hacking, ok? Hacking is just not done guys.
Let's take a quick look at what spy gadgets the aspiring super spies can use.
Surveillance cameras disguised as a pair of spectacles, which have a mini camera and a microphone fitted in the arms of the spectacles, and look like screws. The video cable is disguised as the string of the spectacles. This belongs to the very interesting spy gadgets category, for sure.
Anonymous SMS can be sent from your mobile in over 200 countries for as low as 10 Pounds. The receiver cannot know who has sent the SMS or trace him.
Keystroke recorders that are undetectable to virus scanners, to record keystrokes, softwares launched, record Skype and MSN conversations. This however borders on the illegal territory, and can get you into a lot of trouble.
So go on, try using these spy gadgets to get that scoop of news, or ice cream, maybe?