Covert surveillance devices: Video

You can conduct a bug search to locate covert video surveillance devices and eventually remove them.

An adversary can install covert video surveillance devices that can film a computer or phone screen, or a computer keyboard. To mitigate this, when using a computer or phone for sensitive activities, you can:

• Keep the device facing a wall that you can thoroughly search for covert video surveillance devices (rather than facing a window or TV, for example).
• Enter your passwords while under an opaque sheet or blanket.

An adversary often needs to covertly enter a space to install a covert video surveillance device in the space. You can use physical intrusion detection to detect such a covert entry.

You can keep action materials in a stash spot or safe house to avoid bringing them into your home, where covert video surveillance devices can be present.

An adversary can park a surveillance vehicle near your home with a camera that films your home entrance. To mitigate this, you can use the following passive surveillance detection technique. It only works if you live in a place where there aren't too many different vehicles that park, that is, in some residential areas in cities and in most rural areas. Each time you leave or enter your home, you take note of all the vehicles parked on the street that have a line of sight to your home. Trying not to look suspicious, you note their model, color, and license plate number, either remembering the information or writing it down. After doing this for a while, you will become familiar with the “baseline” of vehicles that park on your street, which will be the vehicles of people who live nearby or their guests. Once you're familiar with the baseline, you'll be able to spot vehicles that are not part of that baseline and discreetly examine them to see if they are surveillance vehicles.

Cameras were installed in the streets outside Boris's home and outside the home of someone close to him to film the entrances to the homes^[2].