Burn Notice (or Fabricator Notice)

A Burn Notice is "an official statement by one intelligence agency to other agencies, domestic or foreign, that an individual or group is unreliable for any of a variety of reasons."


Guess that is where the title and premise of the hit TV Series, "Burn Notice" came from. Michael Weston, the main character, receives a burn notice and is left with nothing. With all his assets frozen, Weston becomes a freelance spy/private investigator to earn money for his ongoing investigation for the man who burned him. Weston, being incredibly resourceful, uses household items to create surveillance devices, wireless signal jammers, CCTV blinder, etc. I don't know how hard it is to create wireless jammers or CCTV blinders, but surveillance devices seem pretty simple:

Spy Sunglasses

Spy Stethoscope

Spy Scope

I guess this is the grown up version of all the spy toys I had as child. Maybe I should have become a spy (one of my childhood dreams) with my mathematics degree. Well, enough strolling down memory lane and back to matter at hand. However, even with all this surveillance material at our disposable, why waste the time and money when the internet has made it incredibly easy to find information about almost anyone through social networking sites. You can even follow TVLesson through our Twitter and Facebook page. It's scary to find out exactly how much information about you can be found on the Internet.

-Mike