In an industry marked by furtiveness and indirection, it is refreshing to come across and do business with PKI Electronics, a company so candid about its niche you’d think you were shopping in a mall instead of with one of the world’s most sophisticated and diverse providers of electronic surveillance technologies. PKI Electronics is like a “Kingsman” outlet for everyone … [Read more...]
BEA: Mystery Surveillance Company of Torino
For a leading player in so many facets of electronic surveillance, BEA certainly knows how to cover its tracks. BEA offers a range devices and technologies for RF monitoring, GSM and GPS mobile location tracking, store & forward interception, microrecorders, keyboard monitors, radio jammers and even lawful intercept. The only hitch: You might need this equipment to find the … [Read more...]
Is Harris StingRay Above the Law?
Is U.S. law enforcement's fondness of the Harris StingRay running wild? How often are such mobile location and interception devices, broadly known as "IMSI catchers," used, and under what (if any) legal authority? These are not idle questions. They form the basis of a written summons to a public hearing by Senators Patrick Leahy and Charles Grassley, respectively the … [Read more...]
Intercept Monitoring Systems – Russian Amazon.com of Surveillance
C5IS closes our October 2014 review of Russia’s surveillance vendors with a look at IMS -- the Russian Amazon.com of Surveillance. It’s not every day one sees an ISS manufacturer sending out customer alerts on the dangers of fraudulent copycat products. Such is the case with Intercept Monitoring Systems (IMS), a division of Moscow-based Discovery Telecom Technologies … [Read more...]
Cobham: GPS Tracking Plus Live Video and Audio
EDITOR'S NOTE: Cobham in January 2016 spun off its surveillance unit to Marlin Equity Partners, which formed a new company -- Domo Tactical Communications -- in April 2016. Domo offers Cobham's full product line including the audio/video solutions and GPS trackers covered in this analysis. For more on Domo, see our post. While the UK’s Cobham is best known as a defense … [Read more...]