Will spies go back to Minox?

[ClaremontPhoto]

A blocker that stops digital cameras from working by dazzling the sensor. Uses touted include stopping espionage in government buildings, industrial settings and trade shows, and stopping video copying in cinemas.

Perhaps film is the media of choice for espionage?

Whole article at MacUser

 

[John Camp]

Except for the movie-theater scanning, it seems like another solution in search of a problem. If you want to prevent photography in a government building, it would seem to be cheaper to put up a big sign that says, "No Cameras Permitted" and then, if you really wanted to be secure, check people at the door. If somebody wants to photograph "the plans" or a computer screen, how does the scanner detect the retro-reflectivity spot, or whatever it's called, if the camera user's back is turned? What, you have six or eight spotters in every room, nook and cranny? And if the camera is set at 1/500, you're going to spot that? Sounds like more b.s. in search of a government grant.

 

[pvdhaar]

Sounds like more b.s. in search of a government grant.

Ditto. Anyone with half a brain will understand that where money is involved (industrial espionage, illegal copying), money can be spent to sidestep these counter measures.

And this system seems quite easy to fool, it hinges on spotting the CCD sensor behind the taking lens.. It will get spoofed by a lens with an anti reflective backcoating, a shade, a polarising filter, a pinhole, all very cheap ways and the list is endless..

The only thing it will block is mom's point and shoot..

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

I agree, but even so Cathrine Zeta Jones would have liked this system at her wedding!