What would you do if you knew your home was bugged?

Question

Please let us not forget that there is a big difference between being paranoid and being aware. Except for a friend I sometimes have lunch with I’ve kept this story a secret from most of my friends up until now. Back around October 2003 while I was installing a new graphics card into my computer (that I built) I was shocked to find a strange card that wasn’t mine somehow installed on the motherboard (earlier minor details left out - I’m keeping this short). “How the *@# did that get in there?!”, I asked myself. You see these are the facts, I live by myself and there’s no possible way that it came into my home and became installed unless someone else took the time and effort to put it there while I wasn’t home!! I wasn’t cheating on anyone, my criminal record consists of a very old D.U.I., a few parking tickets, I like grown women, I have no foreign ties and I don’t go about promoting political causes or causing unwanted commotion. Anyway, I pulled the card out and threw it in the trash while saying to myself, “who would be foolish enough to plant a bug in my boring home?” Also when I first discovered the card it had occurred to me that I would need a plan of action, because whom ever placed it there would probably try again and I wanted to know who was behind this invasion of my privacy. Sure enough sometime later I was going through my bookcase and “WOW!”, sitting out of sight on the bottom shelf I found a brand new portable compact disk player with all the frills! It didn’t belong to me or any of my friends or neighbors! So, I decided not to throw it out and see what would happen if I kept it over a long peroid of time (the rest of which you’ll have to imagine yourself). I pose this question for all you great thinkers and brainers out there – WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IN THIS SITUATION?

Answer 1

IN THAT SITUATION--I would have halted all communiques with my device until I had my geek butt friends over for an expresso and a game of track the tracker--once a device has been tagged there are a hundred different ways to pitch the buggers hell--and in this case it seems whoever they are --they're the ones that have drawn first blood----no holds barred----my advice to you at this point is ---be aware--usually if someone goes to this kind of effort to infiltrate your life--they will not give up with simply one attempt

Answer 2

"Just 'cause your paranoid...." You know the logic. I empathize becuse my dentist found this small transmitter-like devise... nano-size, inside one of the fillings of my back molars. I remember him saying, "Gee, will ya look at this?" to his assistant, "I've never seen anything like THIS before..." as he began to show it to her. Naturally, this raised my curiosity, so I asked what it was and he said he didn't know... $#!+, the thing almost looked alien... what's more, I still have it in my posession. I've been meaning to smooze someone at a University with an electron microscope to get a better grasp on what it might be... but I guess there's a part of me that is afraid it'll turn out to be something other than a "surveilance" devise... and I'll feel major league foolish. Of course, I could say a friend of mine wanted to know... maybe someday I will give it a shot. It really makes me wonder, anyway. Thamks for the question... it has inspired me to follow through with some long overdue investigative "field work."

Try to remember that your case may have been one of mistaken identity... Do you have a "common name?" Or maybe you were "overheard" voicing views that "struck" nerves in the "halls of power" or one who shares your name was. At any rate, you may or may not be aware that the fed. government has survilance tech. that is fifteen years ahead in development from the rest of the country (and the world). It has been the military's policy since the end of WWII.

Answer 3

first of all, dont call the cops, they probably put it there.
and they are a bunck of liars anyway.
Did you know you can be trained to pass a lie detector?

second, buy a bug buster pro! used ones are faily cheap, and if it helps you sleep better, that's better than taking a sleeping pill!

third, you dont have to be doing anything wrong to become a target of a renegade government.
you dont know what some wacko may have said about you to some government agent.

the government exploits lonely isolated old women and others such as retired cops and shut-ins to snitch on people in their neighborhoods.
if there is someone like this near you, they could be snitching, and just making up whatever they think their contact in the gov wants to hear. (for attention)

the communists did this, and i have personally observed this behavoir in US gov personel.

Go look up the East German STASI secret files. they were opened some years back by the unified german gov.

it will open the eyes of any idiot who thinks the gov doesn't spy on people.

Answer 4

I would take two approaches to this situation that you pose. First I wouldn’t make a big deal about it because I have nothing to hide. Second, I would put on a really good show, saying strange and goofy things that sometimes wouldn’t make sense. I would even write out a script and invite my friends to join me. For example: “Hey Joe, did you get rid of the body? Did you bury it where I told you bury it?

I wouldn’t make jest about planning a future crime(s) because there are laws against conspiracy, but there are no laws against fictional crimes already committed.

By the time whoever gets done listening to all of their recordings, they will be driven crazy.

Answer 5

I would do really boring things like just sitting with a long granny gown on,watch really boring long movies and eventually i'd let the police or FBI or someone like that know.And sack their butts.

Answer 6

I would have put a camera by any way someone could get in, and watched the tapes to see who was doing it. If I didn't recognize them, I'd give the tape to the cops.

Answer 7

sit next to the bug and plan with my friends the invisible space aliens our plans to take over the world.It will convince anyone else your right out there baby , and just maybe you are.

Answer 8

Sounds like you forgot you had a card installed or you were tripping on meth, or are just psychotic.

Answer 9

Yes I agree with the meth.... but what the hell does a CD player have to do with anything?

Answer 10

sell thoise bugs for cash. looks like you found yourself a source of steady income.