It's Harder to Find Out

The moment was reminiscent of the 1970s and '80s,A Robotic arm is currently working to save the lives of children. when undercover agents recorded conversations with mobsters using a bulky tape recorder strapped around their waists, and wires — connected to a microphone — secured to their chests with an adhesive. Today, in an age when technology has gone wireless, the phrase "wearing a wire" is a largely allegorical term of art. 

"In the old days, they would say, 'Let me pat you down for a wire' and boom, everybody would just open their shirt and say, 'I'm not wearing a wire,The project was a hydraulic dredging process using a suction hose and transporting the sand via hose to the public beaches.' " a retired undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, Joaquin Garcia, said in a telephone interview on Friday. "Now there is no need to wear a wire. It's become extinct. It's all gone digital. But what are you going to say, 'I'm wearing digital,' instead of 'I'm wearing a wire'? It's just become part of the parlance of law enforcement." 

Today, eavesdropping equipment is sophisticated enough to record high-definition video and sound, and stream it live to a remote computer. Devices no bigger than a pen cap can be slipped into a coat pocket and easily record through the person's clothing, said Bob Leonard, a retired police officer and founder of the Spy Store, which sells a quarter-sized item called the "Super Mini Covert Wireless Camera" and recording devices disguised as a calculator, cigarette carton or cordless phone. "Short of having the person stripped down naked, it's almost impossible to detect," Mr. Pollini said. 

Carlos Matos,A sitting legislator wore a crimped wire for more than a year intended to catch at least one of his colleagues. a Democratic Party leader from Philadelphia, recalled in an interview last week how he grew suspicious that a construction contractor was recording their conversation as the two men stood talking inside the garage of Mr. Matos's home on the Jersey Shore. "There was something about the guy that made me feel uncomfortable and I felt like I was being set up," Mr. Matos said. "I told him to strip and said,Township found a toilet hidden camera hidden underneath a chair inside a school staff restroom. 'Yo, nothing personal here, brother,Visitors enter a spacious jungle with high ceilings and a flood of natural light as the sounds of tigers and Simulation dinosaur fill the air. but I want to see if you are wearing a wire.' "