Tag archive: spy

According to a new Harris Interactive survey conducted with over 2,300 people, 50 percent of American adults have no problem whipping out the smartphone to take secret videos of unsuspecting people. While this doesn't mean that all respondents have come across an opportunity to spy on someone, they did list several scenarios that would cause them to hit the record button. The most popular response at 23 percent was recording people in… Read More

If you have ever had an interest in spy thriller novels, then the odds are you are at least passingly familiar with John LeCarre’s novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The book debuted in 1974 and starred LeCarre’s most famous and most featured protagonist, George Smiley, and has gone on to become one of the best selling books of the crowded spy thriller genre. Although the book had its own self-contained story line, it also acted as the first… Read More

You might want to reconsider next time you’re thinking of renting electronics to save some money. According to the Wyoming Tribune, a local couple is suing the rental franchise Aaron’s Inc. for spying on them via a rent computer’s webcam. Brian and Crystal Byrd claim the national rental company used DesignerWare’s PC Rental Agent software to monitor them through a loaned Dell Inspiron laptop. The company showed the Byrds a photo of Brian taken… Read More

Facebook is “the most appalling spying machine ever invented,” according WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who recently spoke with Russia Today, while awaiting extradition from England to Sweden on sexual assault charges. “Here we have the world’s most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations, their communications with each other, and their relatives, all sitting… Read More

Ever wonder if that pinhole camera gazing ominously at you from the top of your laptop display might be seeing more than you intended? If you’re a student at Lower Merion School District, it might be giving school officials an eyeful. A new class-action lawsuit from the parents of Blake Robbins, a student at Merriton High School, alleges that school officials were able to monitor their son using the embedded webcam in a school-issued laptop.… Read More

Games creation company Ubisoft has announced that it’s acquired visual effects company Hybride Technologies, the Canadian company that added visual effects to movies like 300, Sin City and the Spy Kids series. Ubisoft plans to share technology to up the quality of effects for games and, through Hybride, to hopefully brings its intellectual properties to the screen. Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft’s CEO, said: “The acquisition… Read More

Computer game publisher Midway Games today unveiled plans to take the venerable Spy Hunter franchise in new directions. The newest installment, to be called Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run, is scheduled to ship in summer 2006. Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run will have Dwayne

Spyware has eclipsed viruses as the fastest growing online threat, infecting nearly 90% of Internet connected PCs. Spyware can infect your system in many different ways: visiting a spy-spreading web site, opening a spy-carrying email attachment, downloading a spy as part of another (often “free”) software program, etc. Your privacy, and even your identity, is at high risk if you surf the Internet more than one hour a week, share… Read More