Buying Guides & Articles:Security & Surveillance

Look in your rearview mirror and you can see whatever's at the level of the mirror. What you (actually, me, in this case) might be wondering is if there's something--or... Read more

Thanks to a new breed of affordable and easy-to-use Wi-Fi-equipped cameras, setting up a home security camera is easy. You can position a Wi-Fi camera anywhere within... Read more

Surveillance is kind of a scary word. It sounds a little paranoid and big-brotherish. But you may find video cameras mounted in and around your home that let you keep an... Read more

Last summer my colleague Erik Larkin went to Defcon, the security conference. He learned how to unlock card-protected, locked office doors with a homemade $10 gadget. He... Read more

Bill Detwiler, Shawn Morton, and I scoured the halls of the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show last week in Las Vegas. We looked for the hardware and software that could... Read more

Admit it -- you've used your computer at work to view non-work-related Web sites. Heck, if you are reading this article at work, you might already be guilty as charged... Read more

Your imaginary department store would probably use electronic surveillance a bit differently than smaller businesses. You might have security staff monitoring store... Read more