Introduction

As mentioned previously when looking at hardware devices in general, I said that detection and monitoring were two completely different processes. Here we look at these two areas of devices, how they differ, and how attacks focus on specifically one or the other.

This chapter covers the details of physical monitoring devices. This includes the standard streaming video, or always-on cameras, and those that take time-indexed snapshot photography or even turn on and off based on other means of detection. In the new age of data representation, we begin to worry less about how the information was originally gathered and more about how it is presented or stored before entered into a court of law. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. As digital as photography is these days, and how being digital inherently introduces the ability to modify that data, I personally trust digital images less than those produced through the original processes. A Polaroid camera produced an instant image that was developed instantly on a physical medium that you could touch. Physical ownership and protection of that image, that picture, was possible. Digital imaging falls under the category of modification after the fact. In fact, photographic studios today will make you look slimmer, taking a few pounds off should you pay a little extra for some Photoshop work, and people who we see in magazines are rarely the real thing. Digital tools allow us to make anything seem what it is not. While some...