Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/03/umbrella-camera-and-other-sovi.html
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Umbrella-camera and other Soviet spy cams up for auction
pesco
#1
hecep
#7
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.).
Headache
#13
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.
jaded
#18
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.
FGD135
#20
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.
