Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/03/umbrella-camera-and-other-sovi.html
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How times have changed.
Looks like rain.
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Aren’t you supposed to be more circumspect when reporting in to your case officer?
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Call me when the Umbrella Man umbrella becomes available.
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Do they have anything in a men’s size 9?
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It’s getting so even bribes, face-to-faces, and business dealings at Mar-a-Lago can’t be considered secure enough. Has to be at Moscow now, where dumb as dirt Trump can feel safe (while, yet again, being surreptitiously video’ed for further extortion and control; I guess he wasn’t following the party line to the absolute letter.).
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Even Trump might admit that he’s not the subtle type.
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I herd u like camera with ur camera…
Karla bemoans the state of tradecraft these days.
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A fun Twitter feed:
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Blab them with the Puty, sounds right.
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About 30 years ago, I was a collector of Minox subminiature cameras. They were neat devices, but not very good cameras. If you ever had one of the Kodak disc cameras then you know approximately what the Minox cameras were capable of. It’s hard to believe that they were seriously used for spying.
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World’s worst honey pot!!!
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Aww, no umbrella gun with ricin pellets?
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Must be a Kyber crystal mine out in Siberia somewhere.
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Would you like to know how to make one? https://hackaday.com/2017/09/15/hacker-maketh-kingsman-umbrella/
It’s got the camera and display, and fires slugs and darts. And it’s bullet proof – in an Airsoft fight sort of way.
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We’re all getting used to this new definition of “Moscow Rules”.
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Well, it is 1930ies technology. But in the pre-digital age you could do a lot of stuff with a Minox much more discreet than with other cameras.
Plus, it was easy to use and easy to change films, and the films were easy to conceal. So you didn’t need a specialist.
There were B/W films optimized for reproducing documents - good enough to get a readable facsimile of, say a typed letter, in bad light. It got the job done.
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