Lone Iguana

Author: loneiguana

  • Stories on Crime

    A Smartphone Is a Prisoner’s Best Friend Rules of Thumb – SOLVING A CRIME The Perfect Crime Scene Store Valuables in the Kitchen to Prevent Theft How I became a con artist – Life stories – Salon.com The Anatomy of a Perfect Bank Heist: Smoke Bombs and Police Scanners Golden-age short-change cons – Boing Boing…

  • 88 Tricks and Tools of James Bond: Part 3 [How to Be Bond]

    Previously, I explored the many tricks, tips and tools of Jason Bourne, and the tricks, tips and tools of James Bond (part 1 and 2) . Now, let’s continue with exploring the tricks, tips and tools of James Bond, part 3. This article will delve into the tips, tricks and gadgets of James Bond’s following…

  • Secret Service, Card Sniffing and Proxies [Link Roundup]

    Inside the Secret Service – Magazine – The Atlantic MobilityWod FareBot: an Android transit-card sniffer – Boing Boing The CIA’s Flickr Page Is Awesomely Bad Martial Arts of Beginners | The Art of Manliness How To Survive in the Wilderness Using Your Mobile Phonefavorite blogsSPY Blog Install PHProxy in Your Web Space to Access Blocked…

  • Wired Article: GPS Trackers

  • Disappearing, Shirts and Tracking [Link Roundup]

    How to Ditch Big Brother and Disappear Forever ThinkGeek’s New Spy Shirt Hides an Actual Working Spy Cam The Great Cyberheist – NYTimes.com Blood Camera to Spot Invisible Stains at Crime Scenes How to Cloak a Crime in a Beam of Light MY PHONE IS OFF FOR YOU How To Track Your Vehicle on the…

  • What You Should Carry [Gear]

    For a while, I’ve been working on a list of gadgets and other gear that I’d like to have with me at all times. Qualifications were that it had to be fairly legal and inexpensive, and fit in a small bag that could easily be hidden in a cache. Under optimal conditions, one would have…

  • FBI, Alligators and Gear [Link Roundup]

    Want to Know if the FBI Is Tracking You? Look for One of These Secret hollowed-out book tutorial – Boing Boing A 20th-Century Master Scam – New York Times How to Wrestle an Alligator | The Art of Manliness GORUCK — Military-Grade Gear Acrobats, Parkour and FreeRunning- About 3RUN Gator Machete Junior – Boing Boing…

  • The Old Cell Phone Trick [A 24 Trick]

    You’re in a dark room with the enemy. You happen to have two cell phones. Take one, place it far away from you. Call it. Spot the enemy moving towards the cell phone/shooting at the cell phone. Kill the enemy. You’re welcome. Subscribe: RSS | Twitter | Email

  • DTMF Decoder [Ideas Come True]

    As you may, or may not have known, I have wanted an online DTMF decoder for a while. What is a DTMF decoder? It’s a tool that lets you take the audio of the beeps of a phone number being dialed, and turns it into an actual phone number. Awesome. Anyway, my dream has become…

  • Vacuums, Cars and Liars [Link Roundup]

    Bulletproof Custard: Liquid Armor That Can Stop Bullets NSA Denies It Will Spy on Civilian Networks Through the “Perfect Citizen” Program Colton Harris-Moore, “Barefoot Bandit,” arrested in the Bahamas after 2 years on the lam – Boing Boing Trio break out of Belgium prison in helicopter – CNN.com Alex Kotlowitz Dark Patterns: sneaky web tricks…