If there is one thing that’s common with most listening devices is that, most of them transmit radio signals, this is a weakness in terms of discreteness.
Most listening devices can be caught if they are transmitting radio signals.
Spy movies always gets our inner nerds hyped up, they be placing a bug inside of the bad guy’s house, especially law enforcers like the FBI or CIA.
In movies, a van is usually outside with law enforcers listening to conversations from the listening devices that they placed inside of the suspects house.
Movies usually correctly, if not some of the time, but most of the time, of how bugs and listening devices work.
Well, if you suspect that the law enforcers are onto you, then you have a bigger problem than trying to remove listening devices.
This article will we will talk about how to detect listening devices or bugs.
No way of telling if there are listening devices at your homes.
From simply inspecting a house, you will be unable to tell if your place is bugged, you will often need a detecting devices that will do all the heavy lifting in terms of detecting signals bouncing off of the bug device.
A professional or someone installing these intrusive devices, will have installed it in such a way that it won’t be in plain sight and will blend in perfectly with the environment.
Get professional help
Let’s admit it, most tech stuff are usually best left to professionals, especially if they are complicated and beyond our knowledge.
These devices can be hidden in almost everyday items, such as TV’s, cell phones, wall clocks, light bulbs etc.
There are services available at most states where professionals can be paid a fee to come and thoroughly do a scan of your place, they usually will, eliminate all working devices.
While they demand a hefty fee, they are thorough, leaving every stones un turned.
The good news is that, there is a cheap alternative to this, which I do recommend for everyday folks, like readers of this article.
Anti-Spy RF Detector Bug Detector
Anti-spy Radio frequency detectors, detects outgoing radio frequency devices or detects radio frequency transmitting device. A good analogy of this, is if you have a device that detects burst pipes or pipes that have water coming out of it.
The detecting range of these devices, are usually from 1MHz to 12GHz.
What does this device cover?
These devices will usually detect anything and everything in the 1MHZ to 12GHZ frequency range. This ranges from GSM/CDMA/2G/3G/4G, Bluetooth and Wifi devices.
The most common frequency used by spy devices is the WIFI frequency which runs on 2.4GHZ to 5 GHZ, Bluetooth on the other hand, runs on 2.45GHZ, GSM on 850MHZ, spy detectors usually covers these.
Eliminating listening devices
With Radio frequency emitting devices, spy detectors will eliminate them, but someone who wants to listen in on your conversation, could be a neighbor, law enforcers, rivals etc. Will go to great lengths to achieve this.
Some listening devices will be installed on, wall clocks, telephones, phone chargers. If they transmit on radio frequency, you are sure to eliminate them.