Beat Big Brother: Dodge CCTV, phone taps and spies

Sometimes knowing you're safe from spies isn't enough. Sometimes the only way to feel better about someone trying to invade your privacy is to fight back, get even and engineer a situation where there's a high likelihood of kneeing the sneaking scoundrels in the goolies. Or turning them into the authorities, whichever works best for you. Here, friends, is how you can create such a scenario.

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This is a portable unit you can place inside a briefcase, car or other valuable item, and it'll alert you by text message when your property is being tampered with. You can even call it from a phone to listen in on whatever people are saying in its vicinity. Hide it in your car, in your own home, or in your boss's office to discover the truth about what's happening when you're not around. Once you know who's messing with you, you can open up a can of industrial-strength whupass.
£495 from Spycatcher
Paranoia scale: 2 tinfoil hats out of 5

Nokia Cellular Voice Changer
Picture the scene: you know exactly who's spying on you and you want to confront them. So you call them up, use a voice-changing system to pretend you're a hot chick, then invite them to a cozy little back alley that's just big enough for three: you, the perp and a dirty great baseball bat. But violence doesn't solve anything, kids, so we're sure you can come up with all manner of uses to entrap and annoy people with this Cellular Voice Changer. Just choose whether you want to sound male or female, then place or receive a call as normal. It even functions as a standard hands-free kit.
£9.95 from Spycatcher
Paranoia scale: 4 tinfoil hats out of 5

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