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Sunday, 22 April 2012

Do You Think Your Phones Are Tapped Or Your Emails Are Being Intercepted?

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With all of the technology available today it's very possible that your phones may be tapped or someone is intercepting and reading your private emails. A quick search of the Internet will produce literally thousands of online spy stores that sell all different kinds of eavesdropping equipment. If you're are involved in a very competitive business your cut throat competitors may want to have an advantage over you and they may be willing break the law to get it. Likewise if you're involved in a divorce or custody litigation your ex may have left behind some spying equipment to monitor your computer or telephone communications.

Telephone wiretapping is not like you see on the movies or on TV. You are not likely to hear strange clicks or noises on your phone to indicate a wiretap. also a surveillance van does not have to be parked nearby with men listening in on headphones. It's far more likely they will use something along the lines of an infinity transmitter or harmonica tap as it was called in the old days. This is a piece of equipment either built in or added on to your home phone. It works like this. Once the equipment is installed on your phone the spy will be able to call your home phone and pause before dialing the last number. At that pint they will play a tone over the phone line and then dial the last number. The phone will not ring in the house but the telephone handset is transformed into a listening device that can pick up all the conversations spoken in the room.

This type of phone tapping device can be very difficult to locate in the average bug sweep of a telephone system. Often the only way this kind of room bug can be discovered is with a telephone trap line. A telephone trap line will be able to detect this kind of invasion of privacy because it will detect every incoming call whether the phone rings or not. In fact it will send you an email alert with the incoming caller's phone number. Even if that caller is using caller ID block.

This can also be the case with an invasion of your email privacy. If someone has somehow stolen your email password and now has access to your emails it can be very difficult to discover this. Even a forensic examination of your computers hard drive may not be able to detect an unauthorized access to your email account and very often the email service providers are not interested in listening to your complaints or suspicions. However it is possible to discover this kind of intrusion with an email tracing investigation. This is where a private investigator will monitor your email account and document any unauthorized access. They can often recover enough identifying information about the intruder to provide enough evidence for an arrest and successful prosecution.

As you can see invasion of your privacy through a telephone wiretap, room bug or email hacking can be possible and even very simple for an amateur to attempt. However an expert in counter surveillance has many tools to catch the spy and even document their crimes.

Copyright (c) 2011 Opperman Investigations Inc

Ed Oppermaan is Pres Of Opperman Investigations Inc. If you suspect someone is reading your emails you need a hacked email account investigation. Visit http://www.emailrevealer.com/ to locate or identify the hacker.


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Purchasing An Existing Site - Think Things Through

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Launching a site from scratch can be a real pain in the rear given the fact it can take a long time for your efforts and money to pay off. Many people simply cannot wait that long, so they look to purchase pre-existing sites that are already well established and have strong positions in their niches. If you are considering such a purchase, it is vital that you think through many of the legal aspects of doing so.

What legal issues can arise in the purchase of a site? Well, there are more than a few. Most boil down to a few questions including, but not limited to, does the seller own certain aspects of the site under the law and exclusivity versus non-exclusivity.

How could the owner be selling a site they don't own? The issue is not one of intentional fraud. Instead, it is more an issue of the fact that world wide web doesn't really mesh well with established intellectual property law. For instance, let's assume the site was designed by a third party company that the site owner hired. Under copyright law, the designing company owns the copyright to the site unless it is assigned to the owner which often does not happen. Alternatively, you might be looking at a site that is based on a template the owner downloaded for free. While there is a license to use it, is there much value in it?

This brings us to our second issue - exclusivity. An exclusive item has much more value than a non-exclusive one. Don't believe me? Ask yourself if an original Picasso is worth more than a print of one of his paintings. Dilution drops value and this is true with websites as well. If a site is comprised of modules licensed from third parties, what is it really worth? There is no exclusivity. Another party could put the same pieces together and make the same exact site. Given this, is it a smart idea to buy the site?

Don't get me wrong. The design, format or software on a site might have little value, but the purchase might still make absolute sense. Consider eBay. A slightly successful site. It has all the design beauty of a warthog. The system is very simple all things considered. There are plenty of other auction sites out there offering pretty much the same technological abilities. Should you not buy eBay then? Of course not. If you had the money, it would be a tremendous site to own because it has a huge volume of market share and users. This is where the value is, not in what the site looks like or even how it works.

Purchasing an existing site can be a very good move or a very bad one. There is no absolute answer. The key is to know what you are getting into, think it through and then make a decision based on all the evidence before you. That means doing your due diligence.

Richard A. Chapo is with SanDiegoBusinessLawFirm.com - providing legal services for those will buy a site on the web this year.


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