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MSI Detective Services - Chicago’s Premier Detective Agency

By MSI in Debugging - Electronic Countermeasures at July 15th, 2009 | No comments

Chicago, IL Premier Private Detective Agency in MSI Detective Services

Since 1959, Myers Service, Inc. d/b/a MSI Detective Services has been providing quality investigations to attorneys, business, insurance companies and individuals. MSI is an “Accredited Business” with the Better Business Bureau and currently maintains an A+ rating.  Because MSI has maintained a continuous excellent quality. MSI still retains many of our original clients from over 30 years ago.

MSI Detective Services’ experience by itself does not make us good at what we do. MSI investigators realize that in order to maintain excellence, we must continue to strive to learn new areas of investigations to better serve the client. MSI provides all of our investigators with thorough training and continuing education in the areas of surveillance, electronic countermeasures aka debugging, video surveillance equipment, locate investigations, missing persons cases, theft investigations, interrogations, background checks and all areas of investigations. Education does not stop after the initial training period, but continues throughout the course of their employment for any investigator employed at our detective agency.

Service

It’s in our name! MSI Detective Services maintains 24 hour emergency service plus extended in-office business hours of 9am - 6pm, Monday through Friday to our clients. You may reach an MSI Private Investigator any time and every day of the year in an emergency. MSI realizes the nature of private investigations is not always a do it when you can situation. That is why MSI offers “Emergency Investigative Services”, to give assignments a top priority when needed. MSI has a network of national and international provate investigators to conduct investigations anywhere at any time. Now, that’s service!

Dedication

Since 1959 MSI Detective Services has been providing Chicago and it’s suburban areas the highest quality private investigations.  Suburbs like Evanston, Joliet, Oak Brook, Naperville, Skokie, Crystal Lake, Waukegan,  Schaumburg, Highland Park, Oak Lawn, Arlington Heights, Lisle, Aurora, Calumet City, Park Ridge, Oak Park and Northbrook to name a few as well as Milwaukee, Racine and other Wisconsin cities as well.

Creativity

MSI is dedicated to creativity. MSI has tackled and solved many cases utilizing creative and ingenious methods. Our clients often marvel at how we obtain the most guarded information.

Enthusiasm

Yes, MSI still gets excited about our work! Years of conducting investigations has not dimmed MSI investigators dedication to solve a case. We still aim high and approach our work with energy, excitement and the the experience of a veteran. MSI hopes that you appreciate our relentless desire to solve your crisis. We enjoy our work helping people with problems that there is nowhere else to turn.  We pride ourselves in turning what appears to be an impossible mission into a glorious victory for our clients.

Expertise

MSI Detective Services investigators have vast experience in all areas of investigations. In our 40 years, MSI investigators have solved a wide variety of cases. We constantly draw upon these past experiences to solve your case in the most expeditious and cost effective manner. Gathering intelligence not only takes intelligence, but experience as well.

Quality

Companies do not stay in business long without a commitment to doing things right. MSI is no exception. The quality of our work is well known by our clients. The most important aspect of MSI business is keeping our clients satisfied. Our A+ and Complaint Free” Better Business Bureau Rating says it all!

Snooping Through the Power Socket Outlet

By MSI in Debugging - Electronic Countermeasures at July 15th, 2009 | No comments

Power sockets can be used to eavesdrop on what people type on a computer.  This has been reported to be true by the BBC recently.  MSI Detective Services specializes in complete countermeasure sweeps and should be contacted in the event you suspect an information leak.  The following is the article posted in BBC America News online.
Security researchers found that poor shielding on some keyboard cables means useful data can be leaked about each character typed.
By analysing the information leaking onto power circuits, the researchers could see what a target was typing.
The attack has been demonstrated to work at a distance of up to 15m, but refinement may mean it could work over much longer distances.
Hotel attack
“Our goal is to show that information leaks in the most unexpected ways and can be retrieved,” wrote Andrea Barisani and Daniele Bianco, of security firm Inverse Path, in a paper describing their work.
The research focused on the cables used to connect PS/2 keyboards to desktop PCs.
Usefully, said the pair, the six wires inside a PS/2 cable are typically “close to each other and poorly shielded”. This means that information travelling along the data wire, when a key is pressed, leaks onto the earth (ground in the US) wire in the same cable.
The earth wire, via the PC’s power unit, ultimately connects to the plug in the power socket, and from there information leaks out onto the circuit supplying electricity to a room.
Even better, said the researchers, data travels along PS/2 cables one bit at a time and uses a clock speed far lower than any other PC component. Both these qualities make it easy to pick out voltage changes caused by key presses.
A digital oscilloscope was used to gather data about voltage changes on a power line and filters were used to remove those caused by anything other than the keyboard.
“The PS/2 signal square wave is preserved with good quality… and can be decoded back to the original keystroke information,” wrote the pair in a paper describing their work.
They demonstrated it working over distances of 1, 5, 10 and 15m from a target, far enough to suggest it could work in a hotel or office.
“The test performed in the laboratory represent a worst case scenario for this type of measurement, which along with acceptable results emphasizes the feasibility of the attack on normal conditions,” they added.
The pair said their research was “work in progress” and expect the equipment to get more sensitive as it is refined.
The attack is due to be demonstrated at the Black Hat conference that takes place in Las Vegas from 25-30 July.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8147534.stm

Debugging - Electronic Countermeasures

By MSI in Debugging - Electronic Countermeasures at June 1st, 2009 | No comments

Myers Service, Inc. - MSI Detective Services provides professional debugging, electronic countermeasures, bug and tap sweeps to businesses, private parties, governmental agencies and law firms. Our specially trained technicians use state of the art equipment to provide the best and most thorough debugging sweeps in the Chicagoland area. Our clients include Local, State and Federal governmental agencies, Fortune 500 Corporations as well as private individuals, Law Firms and Small Businesses. Our tools include Spectrum Analyzers, Non-Linear Junction Detectors, RF Detectors, Carrier Current Detectors, Time Domain Reflectometers as well as other tools of the trade.

Bug and Tap has changed over recent years.  New methods of listening in including using the computer and internet, cell phones and other methods as an easy and effective way to eavesdrop on unsuspecting parties.  State and Federal laws have responded by broadening the laws and making stiffer penalties for eavesdropping.  The courts are still scrambling to better define what is and what is not legal.  Since we are not lawyers, we cannot tell you what is legal and illegal as counsel.  We can describe to you our understanding of the laws and what we believe is right and wrong.

We get calls daily from clients who believe their cell phones are tapped or people who want to tap a cell phone.  Tapping any phone is illegal unless you advise the parties speaking that the conversation is being recorded.  There are exceptions to the case such as in states where the Federal Law of one party consent exists.  In Illinois for instance, All Parties must be notified and must consent of any conversation that is being recorded.  Exceptions to this include recent case that that allows you to record a conversation for what is called “Enhanced Note Taking”.

I personally had attempted to bring charges against a suspect who tapped our conversation without my consent.  I was interrogating him for suspected employee theft when I heard a beeping coming from his brief case in a small Southern Cook County Suburb.  I asked the suspect what the noise was and noticed that his face became very nervous.  Being a trained interrogator, the uneasiness suggested that he was doing something that he knew was wrong.  Especially since I had earlier requested his permission to record our conversation which he denied.  I asked him if there was a recorder in his brief case to which he admitted.  He then asked my permission to record the conversation.  The gall!!! I said no and excused myself from the room.  My client and I agreed that this person was most likely a thief but was definitely an eavesdropper so we called the local police.

Everyone including the police, the lawyers, myself, my client (who worked in loss prevention) all thought the crime was clear as day.  Illinois law clearly says all party consent.  But when the court date rolled around, his lawyer had done research and found case law that countered this.  The case law states that if you are using the recording for your own personal note taking purposes, then there is no crime.  For instance, you are talking to someone but do not want to write, cannot write or just want more accurate notes of the conversation.  As long as these recording are not played for other parties, duplicated, published or otherwise made public, then there is no crime.

Since my suspect never had time to play the tape for anyone (nor would I likely ever find out if he did), there was no crime and the charges were dropped.  So to end the story, the employee was terminated but we never pinned the theft case on him.  Although we did do a background check, something the client never did before hiring, and found numerous theft and other criminal convictions in his past.  Had the client contacted us before hiring, he would never have had the opportunity to steal in the first place.

It’s best to consult with a lawyer who is knowledgeable in the area of law.  That will prove hard to find since there are not many cases in the courts yet.  Although the number is growing with the number of products out there growing by the day.  Check out this link to see what is available: http://www.uspystore.com/audio-surveillance.html

There are many websites out there that keep track of the changing laws in each state.  Florida and Illinois for instance, are what is called All Party Consent States.  This means all parties involved in a conversation must consent to the recording.  Indiana and Wisconsin are One Party Consent States.  This means that if one or more persons who consent to have a conversation recorded (this can mean you giving permission if you are involved in the conversation), then there is no crime.  There are additional things to consider such as not recording the conversation for criminal purposes.  Here is a good website to check on the ever changing state laws: http://www.rcfp.org/taping/states.html

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MSI Detective Services Experience

By admin in MSI Detective Services at March 15th, 2009 | No comments

Since 1959, MSI Detective Services has been providing quality investigations to attorneys, business, insurance companies and individuals. Because MSI has maintained a continuous excellent quality. MSI still retains many of our original clients from over 30 years ago. Our A+ Better Business Bureau Rating & Complaint Free record proves that we aim to provide the best private detective and investigative services to our clients.

MSI Detective Services experience alone does not necessarily make us good at what we do. MSI investigators realize that in order to maintain excellence, we must continue to strive to learn new areas of investigations to better serve the client. MSI provides all of our investigators with thorough training and continuing education. Education does not stop after the initial training period, but continues throughout the course of their employment.

MSI Detective Services experience alone does not necessarily make us good at what we do. MSI investigators realize that in order to maintain excellence, we must continue to strive to learn new areas of investigations to better serve the client. MSI provides all of our investigators with thorough training and continuing education. Education does not stop after the initial training period, but continues throughout the course of their employment.

Our service area includes the entire world with our network of International Investigator Network however we are located in Chicago, IL and have investigators in all the surrounding counties including Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, Will, McHenry as well as Lake County Indiana, Racine County Wisconsin ans well as NW Indiana and Southern Wisconsin.  We have recently handles investigations in Bensenville, Joliet, Wilmette, Skokie, Evanston, Schaumburg, Hinsdale, Naperville, Waukegan, Aurora, Oak Brook, Wheaton, Lisle, Arlington Heights, Kenosha, Highland Park, Homewood, Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn, Geneva, St. Charles, Romeoville, Bolingbrook, Lombard, DesPlaines, Elk Grove Village, Wheeling, Northbrook, Warrenville, Barrington, Bartlett, Hoffman Estates and Addison to name a few.

We are specicalist in all lines if investigations including surveillance, electronic countermeasures aka debugging, missing persons, theft investigations, interview and interrogation, fraud matters and all other areas of investigation.  Call for a free confidential and no obligation quote today at (888) 338-1881.

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