Hidden camera or hidden camera is always an obsession when you rent a house or a hotel. All your private things are secretly filmed and bad guys can use that image to spread on the Internet or demand ransom. We don’t need wave scanners to find hidden cameras. You can use some of the tricks below to detect hidden cameras in the room
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Ways to find hidden cameras in your room
first. Draw the curtains, turn off all the lights in the room. Close your eyes for about 5 seconds and let your eyes get used to the dark then look at the places you suspect. If there is a camera, it will have a small red light emitted. Those are the normal hidden cameras. As for the more expensive types, below will have another way.
2. The camera can be hidden behind glass panels in the bedroom. Use the tip of your finger to press the glass perpendicularly, if the reflected image is far from the nail tip, it is normal glass. If the tip of your fingernail touches the reflection, then 95% of the glass is unidirectional and likely has a hidden camera behind it.
3. The hidden cameras often connect to the Wi-Fi network to transmit the recorded content, so scanning and checking for any cameras connected to the hotel’s current Wi-Fi network cannot be viewed. is a solution to determine the existence of hidden cameras.
To do this, you can use an application called Fing (Android | iOS). This is a free application that will help list all the devices that are connected to the Wi-Fi network that your smartphone is using, here the application will clearly list which cameras are connected to the Wi-Fi network. or not.
4. If you detect a suspicious surveillance camera appearing in the Fing application, the next step you can use is an application called Hidden Camera Detector (Android | iOS). This is an app with the feature of scanning suspicious locations to find out if there are hidden cameras.
Download the free app compatible with Android 5.0 and up. Hidden Camera Detector will use the magnetic sensor on the smartphone to determine the location of the hidden camera. Users can bring smartphones near suspicious locations in the hotel room, such as flowerpots, changing mirrors, wall corners, cupboard corners, etc. The magnetic sensor on the smartphone will emit a “beep” sound if it detects magnetism. emitted from hidden cameras.
5. If you often travel far away for work, equip yourself with a device capable of scanning hidden cameras. These devices typically scan RF Detect frequencies from 1MHz to 6.5GHz for all RF frequencies including GSM,WIFI,Bluetooth, FM, VHF, UHF, 900/1200/2400 wireless audio and video. The price fluctuates in the market from 400,000 VND to 900,000 VND, also quite cheap.
How to detect Hidden Camera you can do yourself
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Step 2. Go to the room, turn off all the lights to make the room as dark as possible, then use your phone to open the photo section to scan every corner if you see a strange light where there is a hidden camera. Because there are many cameras that can shoot in the dark
Step 3. If you turn on wifi and there is a wifi with a long name that looks like a code with meaningless letters and numbers, it’s a hidden camera
Step 4. If you spend the night in a hotel, pay special attention to unusual objects placed around the bedroom or bathroom such as lighters, vases, scented wax boxes or flower pots next to the bed. Those places usually have a lot of cameras.
Step 5. Stick your finger in the mirror, if your nails and the image of the nail in the mirror touch each other, it is a 2-way mirror, and between the two nails, there is a gap, it is a 1-way mirror. A 2-way mirror means that people in the next room can see you but you can’t.
Step 6. Stand in the room to make a phone call without signal/interference -> hidden camera.
Step 7. Stealth cameras are often connected to Wifi to transmit recorded content, so you can download the Fing app to display a list of devices connected to Wifi. It will clearly list whether any camera is connected to Wifi or not.
Step 8. If you find a hidden camera, you can continue using the app Hidden Camera Detector to make sure. It’s an app that scans suspicious locations for hidden cameras. When using, we should bring the phone near the suspicious locations we mentioned above, if it makes a “BEEP” sound -> there is a hidden camera.
Step 9. When going to public restrooms, you should wear a mask, hat and cover carefully so that in case the worst case happens, at least your identity is still protected.