A MBBS student Gurivi Reddy of Nandyal has astonished the country by organizing a hi-tech mass copying racket during the Eamcet entrance exam by using imported Blue Tooth enabled cameras and microphones. He has done many such offenses across the country.
Presently the electronic gadgets which were imported by Gurivi Reddy with more effort and man power are made available for home delivery when you have Rs. 10,000 in your hand. The device keeps in contact with your friend while sitting in the exam hall or finding out what your dear most spouses is doing in the office, where eves dropping are never made at ease.
There are many varieties of snooping devices which can be fixed in Kurtas, shirts, underwear, lockets, wrist watches, wall clocks, hair clips, wallets, calculators, debit cards, pens and even erasers to locate and transmit the audio and video of a particular object staring from Rs. 3000 to 1 lakh. Spyware was recently in the news when an invigilator at an intermediate exam has caught one with Blue-Tooth device fixed in his vest.
The culprit has agreed that he has purchased the Blue-Tooth along with micro ear phone from snap deal for Rs.13, 000. When a person was caught in the issue, there might be many people who will use the gadgets for illegal purposes. Subash the MD of Hi Tech gadgets has said that the gadgets are not illegal, and sometimes many use it illegally.
A representative of Keen watcher group has stated that mostly the gadgets are purchases from China, South Korea or Japan and then fits them to suit the needs of Indian customers. The companies also offer jam free spyware at rate which costs Rs.30,000 to beat the cell phone jammers. Meanwhile the GSM enabled software products, where one need not carry a mobile phone near the body to make the communication with a third person may cost around Rs. 15,000 and it was also said that using the device for illegal purposes was against the law.
