The threats.

With the increasing rivalry in the global market knowledge about plans and price-fixing of your competitors is a great financial advantage.

One means of gaining such information is targeted eaves dropping which is carried out by all kinds of intelligence services as well as nonserious Detective Agencies.

The ever developing electronical communication technologies as well as careless use of these items make it easy for so called “news finders”.

In addition there is interference in our telecommunications by foreign countries via satellites (subject: ECHELON).

The classical eavesdropping devices are also highly developed. This digital minimization of the electronical parts makes it easier to use and hide such devices.

Many of these eavesdropping devices (Minitransmitter, bugs and increasingly video-transmitter) can easily be supplied by the internet and built in, even by amateurs (for example from the oft unsupervised cleaning personell).

Just as easy is the attack on a computer by inputting a "keyghost" which is able to record the data transfer between keyboard and processing unit for days on end. For the reading out of the recorded data the keyghost is exchanged by another.

Furthermore oral communication is endangered by the manipulation of the communication equipment by the input of a so called Harmonica-Transmitter as well as by technical modifications like the illegal manipulation of the build-in microphone.

The unnoticed use of ISDN-equipment for eavesdropping on telephone meetings is surely well-known by nearly everybody