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[PHOTO] Breaking into a Locked and Alarmed Door
One crafty thief broke into a locked and alarmed door via the above method. It clearly took some tools and knowledge. Supposedly this method of entry is taught to certain firefighters during their...
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[ARTICLE] Five Dollar App Can Turn Your iPhone into a Radiation Detector
For real. For just $4.99, you can download an app via Apple’s App Catalog that can turn your iPhone into a bona fide Geiger counter. Designed by Connecticut-based developer Image Insight, GammaPix...
View Article[VIDEO] Beware Point-of-Sale Credit/Debit Card Skimmers
In this example, the thief uses a fake – but very realistic looking – cover over the real Vodafone point-of-sale device. Though not also shown in the video, the underside of the device includes a tiny...
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[ARTICLE] Coming Soon: A Thermal Imaging Camera for your iPhone
FLIR, an industry leader in thermal imaging devices for security and military uses, is coming out this spring with the FLIR One, a $350 iPhone 5 case that, when used in conjunction with a special app,...
View Article[ARTICLE, VIDEO] Police Are Testing a Live “Google Earth” to Watch Crime as...
Police in Compton, CA last year quietly began testing a real-time surveillance system which allowed them to record all happenings in the city – meaning all crimes – in real-time. Unlike CCTV-type...
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[ARTICLE] Text-to-911 Now Available in Select Markets
As we had mentioned in this post a few years ago, texting – not calling – 911 for emergency help would hit the mainstream market in the near future. That day is now here. Sort of. Text-to-911 is now...
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[ARTICLE] Cellebrite Developing Portable Device to See if You Were Texting...
Israeli company Cellebrite is reportedly developing a portable unit that would allow police officers to examine a motorist’s cell phone to determine if they had been texting at a certain point in the...
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Police Dogs Being Used to Sniff Out Child Porn
Law enforcement is now using dogs specially trained to sniff out electronic storage media such as memory sticks, SD cards, and thumb drives. The dogs of course can’t tell if there is actually...
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Jurors May One Day Go Inside a Crime Scene with Virtual Reality
One day in the near future, courtroom jurors may have the ability to don a pair of virtual reality goggles (which are also becoming increasingly convenient and inexpensive) and actually take a...
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Portable 3-D Imaging for Footprints and Tire Tread Marks at Crime Scenes
The graphic depicts the operation of a new type of portable crime scene forensics technology for taking high-resolution, 3-D images of shoeprints and tire-tread marks. The technology works by encoding...
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