The Threat
You could have been excused for not implementing counter surveillance measures in the past into your organisation. Until fairly recently, commercial "bugging" was a specialist business undertaken usually by ex-security services personnel using high cost and difficult to obtain surveillance equipment. Not any more.
Take a look in any High Street today and you will find stores selling cheap low cost surveillance cameras and recording devices. They are everywhere. Your town may even have a “Spy Shop”. These businesses sell low cost transmitting bugs and taps, most of them illegal to sell, buy, own or use.
Then there is the Internet. Type “Spying equipment” into a search engine and see what comes back. Bugs are cheap, some cost as little as £20 making them disposable. It takes just seconds to deploy a limpet bug.
It is now estimated that 200,000 such devices are sold in the UK every year, an industry worth over £5m.per annum.
