Worried About Someone Spying on You? This Gadget Finds Hidden Cameras in Any Room
Finding a hidden camera in your hotel, Airbnb, or dressing room is a horrifying experience that no one should go through. While it doesn't happen every day, there have been enough recent cases to raise alarm. In late October, a couple on a Carnival cruise reportedly found a camera in their bedroom, and several hotel and rental home guests have been secretly recorded in the last month as well.
Spy Associates, a maker of surveillance and privacy protection products, has designed a product that will help put worried travelers' minds at ease. The company's SpyFinder Pro Hidden Camera Detector uses LED strobe lights to ferret out the reflective surfaces of various kinds of cameras. The company says the gadget works even when cameras are undetectable to the human eye, and even when they're turned off or non-functioning.
The company recently launched the product on Kickstarter, and it has already well exceeded its $10,000 goal. The battery-powered device is recommended for frequent travelers or people with privacy concerns at work or at home.
"You won't believe how small hidden cameras are these days," the company says in its Kickstarter campaign. "Often no bigger than a pinhole, these tiny spy cameras are concealed inside everyday objects such as clocks, glasses, lamps, picture frames, USB chargers, keychains, desktop fans, outlets, smoke detectors, DVD players, fake water bottles, air fresheners, and so much more."
The SpyFinder Pro is small enough to fit in your pocket and easy to use. Simply look through the viewfinder while pushing the button on top and peering around the room. If there's a camera, the area it's hidden in will start blinking through the viewfinder. There are three different LED settings, depending on the size of the room and type of surface. For example, a low-intensity setting should be used in a bathroom with mirrors to prevent false reflections.
Anyone who pledges $198 by November 24 will receive the SpyFinder Pro at a $50 discount. The product will be delivered (with free shipping to U.S.-based customers) this December. Once the fundraising campaign ends, it will be available on SpyAssociates.com for $248.
The 'congregation' just followed what Maxine Waters preaches.
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A protest outside the Washington, D.C. home of Fox News host Tucker Carlson has lead to a criminal investigation from police. Twitter has suspended the anti-fascist group that promoted the protest and tweeted Carlson's address.
About 20 protesters gathered in front of Carlson's home Wednesday night, chanting loudly and using a bullhorn, according to a police report obtained by CBS News. Carlson said he was at his Fox News office, preparing for his 8 p.m. show, and his wife Susie was home alone at the time. The couple's four children were not there.
Carlson's wife said she heard "loud banging and pounding on her front door," the police report says. When officers arrived, they found politically-charged signs left on cars in the driveway, a sign on the front door and the anarchy symbol spray painted on the driveway.
The police report describes the protest as "anti-political" and a "suspected hate crime." Police are investigating an offense of defacing public property, but the department told CBS News no arrests have been made.
A group called Smash Racism D.C. posted messages on social media encouraging the protest and revealing Carlson's address. "Fascists are vulnerable. Confront them at their homes!" the group wrote in a Facebook post. In a tweet, Smash Racism D.C. said Carlson spreads "fear into our homes" every night and would be reminded "that you are not safe either."
In videos posted on Facebook and Twitter, protesters are heard calling Carlson a "racist scumbag" and chanting, "Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!"
Carlson said in an interview with The Washington Post that the incident "wasn't a protest. It was a threat." He said someone "started throwing himself against the front door and actually cracked the front door." He said his wife, thinking it was a home invasion, locked herself in a pantry and called 911.
"They weren't protesting anything specific that I had said. They weren't asking me to change anything," Carlson told the Post.
"They were threatening me and my family and telling me to leave my own neighborhood in the city that I grew up in."
Fox News issued a statement calling the protest "reprehensible."
"The violent threats and intimidation tactics toward him and his family are completely unacceptable," the statement said. "We as a nation have become far too intolerant of different points of view. Recent events across our country clearly highlight the need for a more civil, respectful, and inclusive national conversation. Those of us in the media and in politics bear a special obligation to all Americans, to find common ground."
Other news organizations, including CNN and The Washington Post, published op-eds condemning the protest and saying it went too far. Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly called it "stomach-turning," writing in a tweet, "This has to stop. Who are we? What are we becoming?"
Smash Racism D.C. has helped organize similar protests in public and at the homes of other conservative figures, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and White House senior advisor Stephen Miller.
Police launch investigation after Antifa activists descend on Fox host Tucker Carlson's home
Chris Christie being considered as next attorney general
As an added inducement to take the DOJ position Trump gave him an all you can eat gift card from Dunkin' Donuts.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is being considered to replace outgoing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to multiple reports.
ABC and CNN (might be fake) both report that sources close to the selection process have told them that Christie, a longtime friend of President Trump's who endorsed the former real estate magnate's White House bid after dropping out of the 2016 race himself, is on the president's shortlist.
Christie served as a U.S. attorney in New Jersey between 2002 to 2008 and was considered a contender for attorney general during the 2016 transition.
A representative from the White House tells The Hill that they "have no personnel announcements at this time."
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) is also reportedly on the president's shortlist.
Trump announced Sessions's resignation on Wednesday.
Matthew Whitaker, Sessions's chief of staff, was appointed the acting attorney general by Trump later that day.
Christie’s last stint in elected office was marred by “Bridgegate,” when two of Christie’s former aides were charged with closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge in retribution against a mayor who refused to endorse Christie for reelection in 2014.
Prosecutors decided not to pursue Christie, saying they could not prove that he had knowledge of the closures.
After his unsuccessful presidential campaign, Christie helped run the White House transition and has kept close with the Trump administration since.
