Hidden camera under the sink. A find for a spy: an overview of small hidden cameras with great features

Late on the evening of June 12, a VKontakte user with an empty profile and a little-known Russian rapper on his avatar sent Polina Anisimova a photo with her face and asked if it was her. She only read the message in the middle of the night. Polina was definitely in the photo: her sweatshirt, a birthmark, a mole on her face. But when and how the picture was taken, she did not understand. In addition, she did not post anything like that on the Internet at all. Alerted, Polina showed the message to her young man.

At first they thought it was some kind of bad joke or the new kind network blackmail, and began to google the extortion methods of VKontakte.

After Polina confirmed that it was really her in the photo, the anonymous person sent her other photos saying that he had “bad news” for her and that she “suffered the same way as his loved ones.” In the pictures, some girl pissing against the background of white and brown tiles. Anisimova became even more embarrassed, refusing to believe that it was her.

Anonymous did not blackmail Polina or threaten her, but only warned that she, like many other girls, was a victim of covert filming.

The footage was watermarked with the words Hidden Zone. Having driven the phrase into a search engine, Polina and her young man easily found hundreds of videos on one of the torrent trackers, filmed by hidden cameras in the toilets. In a preview of one of them, Anisimova recognized herself. There was no doubt: it was her bag, her blue jeans, her buttocks. True, in the screenshot she was with long hair, which she cut off two years ago.

So Polina found out that since at least 2014 there has been a porn video with her participation on the Internet, filmed without her knowledge.

The next day, she herself told about everything in facebook. “If I kept quiet about this, this story could become a reason to blackmail me in the future, although I am not to blame for anything here, like thousands of other victims,” she explains.

The story was picked up by the media. Most of all, many were shocked by the fact that Polina, according to her assumption, was filmed in the toilet of one of the cafes of the popular Shokoladnitsa chain. At least, this is what her "informant" thinks, who also talked to other girls caught in such videos. Some of them figured out when and how they could get into these shots.

According to the anonymous source, he began his investigation after his relative became the “heroine” of one of these videos. Now he is trying to identify those who shoot videos, and notifies the victims using Findface technology (allows you to find a person's VKontakte account from a photo).

So far, he has managed to contact less than ten victims - in many videos, faces are either not visible at all, or they cannot be recognized. He hopes that the statements of these victims to law enforcement agencies will be sufficient to start an investigation.

Now Polina Anisimova and four other girls who became victims of hidden shooting are negotiating with a lawyer who will represent their interests. “What happened is a violation of our rights. And now we are trying to figure out what to do with it, how to restore our rights,” she says.

Anonymous also persuades his relative to go to court, but she, a low-ranking official in the administration of her city, is, according to him, afraid of losing her job: “Their unspoken policy is that if you are involved in any scandal, even as a victim, you help you quit.

The young man does not give his name, explaining that he “does not want to shine, given the connections that those under whom [he] digs have.”

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A cursory web search is enough to make sure: hidden filming in public toilets cafes and shopping centers, in the locker rooms of gyms and on the beaches, has been around for a long time, and such videos are widely circulated. The consumers of such content are voyeurs - those who experience sexual arousal from spying on other people. separate view voyeurism - spying on women in toilets, such people are excited by everything related to urination.

One of the associates of the anonymous person who helps Polina and other girls to figure out the intruders, a hacker who entered the closed forum, says that most voyeurs - men from 35 to 60 years. They exist according to the laws of a secret society - on the sites where they communicate and share videos, there are varying degrees of access to content, and registering there can be quite difficult. The desire for careful conspiracy is evident. They have their legends and their heroes - suppliers the best content and the best angles.

Before the last scandal with the “Chocolate Girl”, voyeurs were a rather inconspicuous community - in Russia, hundreds of women become victims of those who install hidden cameras and sell recordings from them every year, but there have still been no high-profile criminal cases and sentences.

The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow could not recall a single statement from the “heroines” of such videos over the past few months. The police do not consider this a mass phenomenon, noting only isolated cases.

Videos like the one Anisimova found are being sold on closed voyeur sites with complex access systems and regular porn sites. Registration on specialized sites can cost hundreds of dollars.

Voyeur forums, depending on the complexity of registration, can be divided into closed and open ones. There, participants exchange their experience of shooting and peeping, share their own videos and finds from the Internet, and give advice on choosing equipment.

Judging by what they write on the forums, many video authors use miniature cameras disguised as other objects - the most common ones look like key rings - car keys. In Russia, the purchase, manufacture and sale of special technical means to obtain covert information (that is, without warning those people whom you record using covert video surveillance) are prohibited. For violation of the relevant article of the Criminal Code (138.1), the maximum penalty is up to four years in prison. The most notorious case against her in recent times wasexcitedagainst a member of PARNAS Natalya Pelevina - they found a pen with a video camera on her.

keychain camera

The voyeurs themselves, for the most part, believe that they are not doing anything wrong - although they fear for their safety, discussing what might threaten them.

For example, the former deputy director of a defense plant, for example, was not even afraid of exposure - he was discovered after he had been spying on his colleagues for 15 years, but he already "couldn't stop it" and continued to "walk around, watch."

In another thread, he enthusiastically describes the state that covers him when peeping: “When I go into the toilet and peep, sometimes even the heart is badly done, such a thrill, emotions are so strong and bright! Dressing views ... completely take over my nature.

A voyeur does not need to see something intimate to be aroused, the very fact of invading someone else's space and feeling power over an unsuspecting person may be enough, says clinical psychologist, specialist in working with addictions Veronika Kashirina. To one degree or another, many people like to spy on others, but, according to Kashirina, it is precisely the obsessive need for this that threatens the safety of other people can be considered a deviation (in the International Classification of Diseases, voyeurism is listed in the column "disorders of sexual preference").

This is due to the violation of psychological boundaries between people: “Often people in our country live in one-room apartments for five people - they change clothes in front of each other, wash themselves without closing the door, parents have sex, and children sleep next to each other - this greatly blurs the psychological boundaries, the attitude to one's own and other people's intimacy is distorted, which can underlie both the desire to peep, and, conversely, not to protect oneself, to strive to be naked in public, ”the psychologist argues.

Such people often have problems with self-esteem, superiority over the victim and support for each other in closed communities help to artificially raise it - and at the same time suppress feelings of guilt, a sense of one's own "wrongness" and fear of exposure.

Most of them are not afraid of criminal prosecution. Its prospects are vague, the discussion participant encourages interlocutors: it is difficult to find victims, and content from the point of view of the law is ordinary pornography. In general, you just need to be careful and not “draw attention to our existence, otherwise the journalists can inflate,” he writes.

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A hacker who hacked into a voyeur forum and studied its closed sections under stolen accounts said that the first such communities (one of which was called Petrovka, 38) appeared back in the nineties, in the era of VHS cameras. The largest of the existing now - voyeurs among themselves call it "House" (short for the original name - "House for Pigs") - was created 12 years ago by a man known by the nickname Keks.

Screenshot of the page on the "House"

Membership in the "House" is closed, and members have different levels of access to sections. Status and access level increase for money or the publication of a video.

“Many veteran voyeurs have long retired, the forum provides them with an influx of fresh videos at the expense of newcomers seeking to move up in the community hierarchy and gain a higher status that gives access to closed sections of the forum with more extreme content,” says the hacker.

Large open forums also have closed sections where members post their "work". Most of these people appear to be non-commercial based on the content of the forums, but there are a few "operators" who make videos to sell to sites that specialize in such videos. They advertise their products in the commercial sections of the forums. Actively communicating in the community, they almost do not provide details about themselves, although other users sometimes share stories from their lives.

One of the associates of anonymous spoke with former member"Domika", which was the sponsor of the site and for this in 2008 received access to its closed sections. According to this person, there are several major producers of paid voyeur videos.

“In nature (nudist beaches, sex in the bushes, pissing girls in forest plantations) Vadukha rents for sale, and to a lesser extent Jerki. Women pissing at wedding venues (especially brides) is the focus of Zooom. Ver films pissing minors. Fall has been filming for many years, sitting right in the cesspool in a gas mask and hiding behind some kind of blanket or cape. A particularly dangerous voyeur, Surokspit, who used to be a non-profit author and moderator of Domik, has been operating in Moscow and filming upskirts on escalators for at least nine years,” the source said.

People with such nicknames are often mentioned on forums, and there are thousands of videos allegedly produced by them on torrent trackers.

Named by the source, Surokspit, indeed, uploads videos on paid sites in which women are lifted up their skirts on the escalators of the Moscow metro. The videos were filmed on video recorders or cameras hidden in a bag or attached to an umbrella.

For a long time, a "cameraman" under the nickname Uchebnik specialized in covert filming in public toilets. Until about 2009, he owned a site with paid videos filmed in the restrooms of catering and educational institutions. Among voyeurs, Uchebnik is a legend. “I'm not a textbook, I'm just learning,” says, for example, in the status of one of the users of the voyeuristic forum. Forum participants note his "brand signature", which is guessed in anonymous videos that appeared after 2009 on the largest specialized sites.

Another way to create content for voyeurs is to infect the victim's computer with a virus that allows remote access to the webcam.

Such viruses are often developed by voyeurs themselves to attack a narrow circle of victims, so the antivirus does not immediately recognize the threat. In addition, as one of the sources said, there is a legal software for remote access, which is not blocked by the antivirus, it is installed by fraudulent programmers. Video recordings of an intimate nature, obtained through a webcam, are sold on Domik in the relevant commercial sections.

“Spying on a webcam has become a large-scale cyber fraud,” says Internet expert Anton Merkurov, “it is enough to download a suspicious program that will infect a computer with a virus.” According to him, The best way protection against this is to seal the webcam, as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg does, for example.

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The video with Polina was sold to the pay site Hidden Zone before it got on the pornographic torrent tracker, as evidenced by the corresponding watermark.

Hidden Zone is one of the largest resources dedicated to voyeur content. According to the approximate data of SimilarWeb (the site has closed statistics), from April to May 2016, more than 90 thousand people visited it.

Hidden Zone is the dream of many fans of non-standard porn, but it is difficult because of the multi-stage registration and blocking of accounts with stolen passwords. Entire threads of discussion on the forums are devoted to describing ways to get there. When you try to access the Hidden Zone from a Russian IP address, a stub appears stating that the site is blocked by Roskomnadzor, although it is not on the “black list” on the site of the supervisory authority.
The site is updated daily, with the latest videos allegedly filmed in Russian public toilets added on June 26th.

So on one of the torrent trackers in the "Non-traditional porn" section, among thousands of other videos, a video with Polina Anisimova appeared. But it turned out to be just one of the episodes of the "series" that was filmed in public toilets for several years (and possibly still being filmed).

One of the pages of the torrent tracker contains five "seasons" of video filmed in women's toilets - from 2011 to 2015. Russia is indicated in the column "country of production". In each season, an average of 150-200 videos with women defecating different ages. The last folder for 2015 was added in January 2016. Each video is assigned a serial number, and judging by the number of the last video, there are more than two thousand of them in this “series” alone.

In the threads under the distributions, forum visitors comment on camera angles and complain about the irregularity in the supply of new videos.

“Even through one such camera in a public place, hundreds of ‘models’ pass a day, and dozens of material a week,” lamented one of the commentators (author’s punctuation).

In the folder for 2011, there are videos taken from the cesspool of a street booth, as well as in a toilet decorated with light tiles. In the next "seasons" these places no longer appear. In the same folder, there are videos with an interior that is identical to what can be seen on the frames of the video with Polina Anisimova and at least one other girl found by an anonymous author. According to the second girl, this is the “Shokoladnitsa” toilet near the Oktyabrskaya metro station.

This toilet appears in hundreds of videos from the rest of the "seasons". One of the cameras appears to have been installed in a bin next to the toilet: in some shots, the lens is partially covered by a black garbage bag. In another toilet, according to the anonymous assumption, the camera was disguised as a metal napkin holder on the door, from which the clothes hook was removed. “How, during business hours, you can make holes for screws in the door and replace one piece of furniture with another, I don’t understand,” he wrote.

Women's toilet, in the "Shokoladnitsa" coffee shop near the Oktyabrskaya metro station. Photo: Rain

After the publication of Polina's post, users of one of the thematic forums created a separate discussion thread "drain". A few comments also mention a chain of coffee shops.

“I can tell you one thing with complete certainty: we will not wait for fresh videos from the “Chocolate Girl” push,” writes one of the participants in the discussion. “They didn’t burn the other Chocolat Girl,” another answers him.

Another user discusses whether the coffee house itself may be related to hidden filming: “... the sluggish delusion that the employees or the administration of the institution are somehow involved in this will sooner or later be dispelled, but now, in addition to the heifers themselves, „ under the rim of the toilet “the Security Council will also look, concerned about reputational risks,” he writes (author’s punctuation).

Screenshot from one of the voyeur forums

In addition to the “Shokoladnitsa” on “Oktyabrskaya”, the victims of hidden filming, warned by an anonymous person, were able to recognize from the video of the coffee shop of the network on Tverskaya, Lomonosovsky Prospekt and near the Paveletskaya metro station. A geolocation search on Instagram makes it possible to see that two years ago the interior of the “Shokoladnitsa” toilet on Tverskaya 19a was the same as in the footage taken by voyeurs in 2012, 2013 and early 2014. Now there is a different interior. The cafe declined to comment.

Toilet in "Shokoladnitsa" on Tverskaya 19a, 2016 / Rain

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In 2014, a user of the woman.ru website wrote about the allegedly discovered hidden camera in the toilet of the Shokoladnitsa on Lomonosovsky Prospekt. According to her, “the cafe staff behaved in a boorish way, they didn’t even try to apologize” (author’s spelling - Rain). In one of the two "Shokoladnitsa" located on Lomonosovsky Prospekt, they said that they had not heard anything about such an incident, in the other - that he was, but in another cafe (it was not possible to specify which one).

The series was filmed in at least seven different interiors, but they are all made in the same beige and brown tones. It was not possible to find out from the video where these toilets are located.

In the "Chocolate" similar cases are extremely reluctant to comment. Immediately after the scandal with Anisimova CEO network Tamara Shesterina, in an interview with the National News Service agency, promised that the coffee shop security service would check information about hidden cameras. According to her, video filming is carried out only in the corridors and the working area, and she has no information about the installation of hidden cameras in the toilets.

Security officer of "Shokoladnitsa" in

A spy kit would be incomplete without a toothbrush, a can of Coca-Cola, or other household trifles equipped with a microlens and not arousing suspicion. This review presents a dozen small hidden cameras with great features.

Hidden camera is the number one device. Manufacturers consider the best disguise for “peeping” gadgets to be design for household trifles – from a pack of cigarettes to a can of air freshener.

Electric Toothbrush Oral-B Pinhole Spy It helps to take care of more than just your teeth. A cleverly hidden camera shoots video in AVI format, 640*480. Built-in flash memory allows you to store Oral-B Pinhole Spy up to 8 GB of compromising evidence. The average cost of a “dental” gadget is $243.

Coca Cola with 4 GB of memory, it looks even more harmless from the outside. However, written with "o" clossic betrays the Chinese origin of the pseudo-drink and, probably, alerts potential "victims".

Hidden in a pack Marlboro camera SDHCC pinhole provides high quality video material. The footage can be recorded on a video or DVD player, as well as viewed remotely from any TV and computer.

Law enforcement officers were the first to “hide” the peeping device. Now similar gadgets are available for civilians at a price of $ 300. Spy shoes consists of two parts - the actual camera, mounted in the nose of a shoe or sneaker, and cell phone for 1 GB. To obtain a clear signal, the distance between them should not exceed 50 meters.

hidden cam from Omejo disguised as a lighter. According to the manufacturer, it can shoot up to 2 hours of video with excellent sound and a resolution of 640 * 480.

Hidden lighter camera by Omejo

gadget Motion Detector Telephone is positioned by the creators as a full-fledged alarm system. The phone "with a secret" not only conducts video surveillance, but also reacts to movements within a radius of 25 meters. Having detected unauthorized activity, Motion Detector Telephone sends a signal to the owner - calls a pre-programmed number.

Company brick house produces "spy" devices that work in extreme conditions. Sharp movements and lack of lighting are not an obstacle for a hidden camera-pack of tissues tissue box. Frame rate - up to 30 per second, resolution - 720 * 480.

Belt Minox- a real dream for Bond fans. The built-in hidden camera comes with an SD memory card and a USB adapter. The approximate cost of the fashion “toy” is $300.

When visiting a sauna or a bath, many visitors are afraid that hidden video cameras will be installed in the rooms, which can record an intimate video with subsequent posting it on the Internet or blackmailing a client. In this topic, we will consider the issue of hidden cameras installed in the baths and their use. We recommend that you familiarize yourself

WHY ARE HIDDEN CAMERAS IN SAUNA?

SAFETY: In almost every bath or sauna, there are both open and hidden video cameras that perform a security function, and they are located in the zone of lack of intimate visibility, i.e. entrances, exits, aisles and reception. The installation of such video cameras is indicated by a sign with the inscription: “Video surveillance is underway”, located in a place visible to visitors.

COMPROMATIVE: In some saunas, hidden video cameras can be installed located directly in the premises of the intimate zone, i.e. a locker room, a swimming pool, rest rooms, a steam room, etc. Hidden cameras are installed, you guessed it, to obtain compromising information on a certain circle of people visiting the bathhouse. Such hidden video cameras are used, as a rule, in certain cases and on certain visitors, they will not shoot everyone in a row.

CURIOSITY OR HOBBY: Yes, yes, and yes again, there are owners who install hidden cameras in the bathhouse because of amateur interests to watch visitors. Such bath owners record and collect a collection of the best records of their visitors, as a rule, the records do not go beyond the eyes of the owner and are not sold, but sometimes information can be leaked and the record ends up on the Internet. Bath owners do not sell such recordings and do not show them to anyone, so as not to lose the reputation of their bath and not lose income. Moreover, installing hidden video cameras in a bath without warning visitors is a criminal offense, and not everyone wants to get involved with this. We recommend that you read

EARNINGS: Hidden video cameras in the bath are also installed to earn money by selling the recorded video. As a rule, the owners of saunas do not sin with this, but random visitors to the baths install hidden cameras for such purposes. After receiving the video of interest to them, hidden camera videos are filmed, and the resulting video is sold. It is quite difficult to find such violators, but it is possible to find their cameras, since it is very difficult to install a hidden video camera without a mini repair, which reduces their stealth, moreover, such video cameras are wireless, i.e. transmitting video via a radio signal, which makes it possible to detect them with the help of special devices. By the way, in order to combat such violators, the owners can install hidden cameras in the intimate area of ​​the bath, identifying and suppressing the activities of violators, so as not to lose the reputation of the bath and not rake in problems.

HOW TO DETECT A HIDDEN CAMERA IN THE BATH?

VISUAL INSPECTION: To detect hidden cameras in the bath, carefully inspect all places where they can be installed. Such places include places with best view premises. Hidden video cameras can be installed in fire safety sensors, alarms, TV buttons, light bulbs, electrical appliances, etc. There are a lot of places to install hidden cameras, it is visually very difficult to find a professionally disguised hidden camera. We recommend that you read

SEARCH USING THE INSTRUMENT: If a hidden remote-action video camera is installed in the bathhouse, transmitting video by radio signal, then such a camera can be detected using special devices for detecting hidden cameras. How to use the device to detect a hidden video camera, you will read in the instructions that came with such a device, since the settings of each device are individual. DEEP INSPECTION: Finding wired, well-hidden hidden cameras without a total inspection, which includes dismantling some of the decorative parts of the sauna, is almost impossible. No one will allow this to be done, since such actions can only be carried out by special bodies by a court decision.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR INSTALLING A HIDDEN CAMERA IN THE BATH

For the installation of a hidden video camera in a bathhouse or sauna, and in other places, criminal liability is threatened. Even if these cameras are not turned on and do not film anyone, this is already a punishable act, but if these cameras filmed a video, and even worse distributed this video, then there comes an additional responsibility of the person who installed and used the hidden cameras.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE CAPTURED ON A HIDDEN VIDEO CAMERA IN THE BATH?

We will not give you a definite answer, since in each case the action is individual, but if you have nothing to hide, in without fail contact the police authorities.

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