Beware of tissue box! Your privacy in danger!

Spy cameras can be everywhere these days. As simple as Pringles tin, wall socket and now a tissue box, can have a spy camera concealed in it without your notice at all. How easy if someone just purposely want to set you up using just a little tissue box.

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USB password spirit master helps remember all your web accounts

If you’ve been dealing with a number of computers or web accounts, you should have quite a number of passwords to remember. Just like me, I have more than 10 passwords for the accesses to various web accounts and servers, which I need to use the Password Manager on my BlackBerry to record all them down.

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eSecure app lets iPhone take control of your home security system

Protection One has announced their eSecure application for the iPhone or iPod Touch to allow the users to use the iPhone to control and keep track of their home security panels. The eSecure app lets the iPhone/iPod Touch sync and receive real-time updates from the Protection One security panels.

Protection One security panels allow you to have various detections such as gas leakages or any possible intrusion to sensitive areas in your home. Now these security panels are able to send text alerts to an iPhone with the eSecure app installed, once something suspicious detected.

The eSecure iPhone app also allows you to control your home security system remotely. Such as checking if it’s properly armed and disarm it to let cleaning clews in while you’re at work. Read more in the press release below.

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FaceID – face recognition door access system

Biometric security access system that involves fingerprints and retinas scanning is out. The latest technology is to deal with scanning your entire face, which is definitely much more secure as no one will be able to easily duplicate your face.

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Voice-activated spy cam hides in a wall socket

Spy cameras are everywhere. You can’t simply ignore any household item around you, a plain wall socket can also work as a spy camera and take away all your privacy.

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Dropcam – computerless WiFi webcam system

Dropcam is a camera that can record videos and upload them online via WiFi for you to access. The Dropcam just needs you to hook it up to a power outlet and it supports WiFi connectivity or wired Ethernet, so it can connect to your home wireless or wired network to stream videos to the Internet.

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Origin Storage 1TB external HDD with hardware encryption

1TB portable HDDs are easily available. So they will be the primary portable storage drives that most users will bring along anywhere they go. Thus, there will be a need to take good care of the security of the data on these high-capacity hard disk drives.

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LAlarm turns old USB flash drives into laptop alarms

Most laptop users will have worries about their laptops getting stolen, especially when they’re just a couple of steps away from their laptops. But now you can make use of an old USB flash drive as the laptop security alarm, which makes sounds when the laptop is being detached or taken away from its original position.

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USB Windows Icebox freezes hard drive partitions to prevent accidental data deletion

If you have naughty kids around, who share the same computer with you, you should find a way on how to protect certain files, folders or partitions on the hard drive, to prevent accidental deletion or loss upon virus attacks.

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Saint USB HDD Security Key

Here comes the Saint USB HDD Security Key, a little USB device that allows you to have additional protection to the data on your hard drive. The Saint USB key allows you to use any free space on your hard drive to create protected partitions to save your confidential data. And these protected partitions are only accessible when the Saint key is plugged into the USB port of the computer.

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