HOW CAN I TELL A PROFESSIONAL FROM AN AMATEUR?
Glad you asked!
Incompetence
is exposed by testing! Beware of two things though. First, some TSCM firms
hate it so much they will refuse your account. I’ll leave it you
to guess what that might mean. Secondly don’t ever surprise them.
Always tell them you want to conduct a test and be sure the test does
not involve an illegal device or use of device.
Here is an easy, legal and practical way to test the competency of an
existing in-house team or a subcontracted service. Purchase a cordless
true 5.8 GHz, digital, spread spectrum frequency hopping telephone. These
are available at any department store and Uniden makes the cheapest. When
the team arrives to conduct a sweep show them to the phone and act curious
about how their equipment can find RF sources and you would like to see
a demonstration. Amateur
gear and sweep techs will fail to locate this device every time! That
phone is not advanced or crazy stuff; it’s cheap, easily available
off-the-shelf technology. If your “professional”
sweep team doesn’t have the equipment or expertise to find this,
you are in very serious trouble indeed.
If you haven’t yet hired a team but want to use such a test to be
sure of their competence, it’s even easier. Just come right out
and ask them what equipment they would use that can detect a 5.8 GHz,
digital, spread spectrum frequency hopping signal when you interview them
for the job. You won’t even have to go through the test to weed
out the losers; the question alone will expose them.
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TSCM: Technical Surveillance Counter Measures
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Threat Level Three: (MEDIUM CORPORATE)
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