Using Wattage Meters to Detect Bugs on MAINS
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If you were to buy an item and you think that its bugged, then you could just buy an identical make and model from a different provider and compare the wattage from one to the other. For finding out if your kit is bugged it is as easy as putting a watt-meter on the suspected device and the watt meter on a known clean device to compare and contrast. Let's consider the scenario of a cabin in the rural part of the North. Lets say that all the devices are turned off but the power is still connected. Now lets also say that you get a bill for $80 on that cabin, even though everything is supposed to be turned off. This is a key indicator that *something* is still connected and powered on. If you make certain that everything that should be off is off then you have a puzzle to solve: what on Earth is drawing that power? So one would use a wattage and volt meter and figure out in short order that there is indeed something draining that power. But what could it be? While since your hypothetical cabin in the woods is a long way away from the nearby village if the house was bugged it would have to use a fair bit of energy for broadcasting power to get the signal all the way to a receiving station, so that would account for the $80 bill. Now lets also assume that the bug kit is of high quality engineering, so it would use Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum, so the basic bug detectors wouldn't easily pick the device up. What to do? Because its a small cabin there are only so many electrical outlets that the bug could be attached to. Perseverance and trying every single electrical outlet will eventually route out the source of the transmission. At this point you will find it, all because of a discrepancy in the electrical bill. Maybe the bill is only for $40, still having everything turned off should have a bill of zero dollars. Now one thing to consider in this analysis is that some places in the deep rural areas have a fee simply for having your place connected to the grid. Minus the cost of service and you will get the real world cost of the situation. If there is still some
dis-consistency then you've got a problem on your hands. Something doesn't add up.

It is thinking like this that makes for a good intelligence analyst. You note something being kinda off, dig deeper into it, and expose the buried jewel or nugget of information that reveals the secret.

Just an odd analysis this time...

Cheers!
-warmfuzzy

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