Amateurs with a budget of a few Dollars are able to cause damages of millions to a company; this is nothing exotic. This is today’s reality with which our team is confronted day by day during our anti-bugging operations.

In times of private internet connections anyone (whether amateur-spy or industry espionage specialist) is enabled to rearm oneself with cheap or highly qualified interception devices, to detect for instance the intrigues.

The risk of the eavesdropper to be caught during the interception action tends towards zero. Who is in possession of protecting anti-bugging system, leave alone the knowledge to protect oneself either commercially or privately against these actions.

According to the estimation of the production companies, presently only in Germany there are between 500,000 to 1,000,000 interception devices in the possession of private individuals.

Everybody who ever visited a security exhibition can report the facts that the fair booths mostly visited and highly overcrowded are those of the interceptor suppliers.

With a bug of the size of a sugar cube or a rice grain, which costs only a few hundred Dollars, the development progress, advancement in competition or even complete livelihoods can be destroyed within a very short period of time.

In the meantime our clients are formed mostly of civil persons who are wealthy, prominent and therefore rewarding assailable for anyone interceptor and thereby an interesting target. Information about these VIPs can be used by the interceptor for criminal efforts or simply be sold to the highest bidder. The value of such information can be easily in the range of five to six digit figure amounts in Dollars.

Industry, racing events, any kind of companies, sport clubs, real estate companies, and so on; all these aforementioned projects and ventures are connected with very much money and Know-how. Money which is not in any relation to the costs of an interceptor attack.

Little gifts preserve the friendship - and the flow of information.

Pocket calculators, ashtrays, watches and other commodities are the most liked containers for bugs. Briefcases, replenished with a bug, which can be left behind in the conference room while making an urgent telephone call, and the mobile phone in combination with it, left behind in the briefcase is used as a receiver for the bug in the briefcase, to intercept both innocent business partners in the meantime, can be bought since many years including the instructions and users’ manual for a few hundred Dollars. If a baby phone has the form of a multiple socket and, based on the available line circuit, enables a constant control, than this is also only one of the many saleable simple possibilities of espionage, being on hand for an interceptor.

ISDN/DSL-viruses, telephone bugs, directional microphone, body sound microphones, laser interception devices, intercepting by computer; to spy and record from safe distance screen displays, is only a question of money involved and performance capacity of criminal users. “Ball point pens with built-in high capacity bugs are available for 250 $.

Within the last years the willingness to use the partially aforementioned technical interceptor devices has also increased as well as all other anti-social excesses of our high performance society (e.g. mobbing).

The feeling of affiliation of individual employees of the company is no longer what it used to be. Each one of them is fighting for himself and certainly more successful than all others, if he is ahead with better information. To be in front of the others in knowledge is a victorious negotiation position in all situations of life. Who could deny these facts?

With the aforementioned we don’t want to give the impression, an intercepting attack can be lightly taken in any way or can be justified in any way by a private person. Each interceptor will be interrogated by the public prosecutor (if he gets caught) in court and this has nothing to do with a gentlemen’s behavior. Contrary, we would like to open the eyes of each potential victim with a personal or written word to beware of these commonplace methods of attack

Those people who have been detected and convicted were no monsters or agents 007. Mostly they were inconspicuous people who you can encounter day by day and who even smile at you very friendly.