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Stephane Nadeau: Corporate espionage is always related to companies trying to gather information, if intelligence services are worldwide to specify that there is a real threat nowadays, it is because you're aware there's someone.
Rebecca Brayton: Hi, I am Rebecca Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com, and today we'll be learning more about corporate espionage and how to detect it. What is a bug sweep?
Stephane Nadeau: A bug sweep involves locating electronic eavesdropping devices, it can be miniature transmitter, it can be a telephone that is activated remotely from another location to eavesdrop, you can see that almost any object, behind, inside power bars, inside electrical plugs. A telephone can be modified to listen inside the room.
Rebecca Brayton: Who is generally in need of a sweep like this?
Stephane Nadeau: Especially corporations related to high technology. Nowadays that we have a lot of customers who do neglect the fact that they require professional TSCM Services because sometime, you know, their competitors know what their strategies, they know their patterns, they know everything they're researching.
Rebecca Brayton: So would you be able to take us through a typical sweep?
Stephane Nadeau: Yeah, I'll show you a few of the items. I know it looks like a toy but this is a pretty handy tool to locate in cameras, you look through it and you'll have your lens reflecting. So this is a fiber optic camera, we want to go spots, where we weren't able to go you can pass it through a hole. This is a portable handheld spectrum analyzer to analyze the signals to verify if you have transmissions.
This one is another one; it's not as portable as the other one but little more sophisticated. See we've got the radio channel 295, 296 MHz this unit goes from 1 to 1250MHz. This is an even less portable spectrum analyzer and it's more efficient because it goes within the higher frequencies and we've got an antenna that goes up to high frequencies too at the same time.
Here we have got a guy's performing a real sweep with real equipment. He is doing an RF analysis of RF signals, RF signals are wireless signals, so it could be anything like a wireless microphone, a cellular phone but you can't listen into cellular conversations with this, but you can know that you have some conversations. He is using a probe an RF probe to locate RF transmissions and this is a search tool to see where the transmission is coming from, as an example you see this is a cellular phone. And you can see that it is detecting an RF transmission because any wireless signal is an RF signal.
This is a non-linear junction detector; it's used to locate electronic devices when you perform a physical research, so he is trying to look for electronic devices if there is something behind that. As an example we did place something with in the Kleenex box and see there you know you have something out to get of unfortunately nothing, just a remote control.
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