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Please hide stuff inside a fan! How are you gonna discretely dismember a fan OR see inside of it (it has to have patterned grating)? Also try hiding stuff inside shoes or boots! The human eye can't look around that corner so you would need a camera to see a key that's stuck to the top of a shoe. Also also, could you hide something in a closed bottle? Something so large that you would need to break the entire bottle to get the contents perhaps? Bottle of perfume would also be fun. Really hope you read this!!
Tricks to see if someone’s searched your room. 1. Half toggle the light switch up. When someone comes in if they turn the light on, they will flip it all the way down when they turn it off leaving. 2. Place a Toothpick in the door jamb at a level of your choice, if it’s missing or put back at a different height you know the doors been opened. 3. Rotate your screwheads on light switches and power outlets to perfect X’s and +’s. If anyone removed the plate to install bugs and put the covers back on the screws will be out of line. 4. In that back of the breakfast at Tiffany’s picture frame the tabs that are holding the backing you should have all but one of them secured. 5. The coat hangers (with clothes hanging) in the closet could be arranged in a specific spaced pattern. So you know if someone checked the back of the closet. 6. A small piece of clear scotch tape folded over itself (so it’s not sticky.) placed under the right corner of a pillow on the bed or couch. If anyone moves the pillows, they will not set them back in the exact way where the tape was. 7. Use a BIC pen/ permanent marker to leave a desk drawer open an exact amount. Anyone searching a room will look in an unlocked drawer to see what’s in it. And when they are leaving if they don’t accidentally close it entirely (habit) they might leave it open a little. When you return Simply use the pen or marker that’s on the table to see if it’s still and exact fit/gap.
I suggest doing it a precise amount off from perfect + or X because if it's precise it looks intentional, if it's off they might be more likely to think you don't care or notice whether it's aligned
I used to do that with my door handle & some boot wax on the underside. Not so noticeable that they'd see it on their hand, but still enough to tell if someone had cleaned the handle. Also a bit of mechanical pencil graphite placed between the door & doorframe, about a foot above the floor. Too low to see at first glance when you're walking in, but easily noticeable if you know where it should be. I had a problem of someone stealing from my room in university. I needed confirmation that someone was entering my *locked* bedroom.
@@TheLonelyBrit what kind of lock was on the door? tbh i don't think the lock matters because the latch could've been slipped, under/over the door reach tools, and a variety of other things. But i want to know out of curiosity.
@@heroslippy6666 having locked myself out of my own house a few times(didn't used to have the house keys attached to the car keys) it takes less time than you'd think with just lockpicking a door with some hairpins usually took me something like 5-10 minutes and I imagine if your actually practised at it less than 5 would be feasible and probably normal
He also booby-trapped a drawer with explosives to stop anyone getting his notebook, so hopefully they are selective with which techniques they choose to take from Death Note. 💥😂 Other than that, in the process of exploring Light's room, L also set up loads of bugs/covert CCTV, which would be an easy way to know if someone's been in your room (although it wouldn't make for as good of a video if Brian was immediately caught because there was a mini security camera recording the entrance to the room 😂).
@@ManWithNoPlan if I remember correctly Light did know someone had been in his room to place surveillance equipment but only because of his small traps And because of that he could play it cool and pretend to not see them while ryuk could find the cameras
@@thisaccountisntreal107 he realised due to some of the traps being re-armed, but not others (i think it was hair being re-armed, but lead being tripped)
If you made sure the room was pitch black, you could leave a camera film cartage exposed so when the lights are turned on you could tell by the film reacting.
doesnt really work. if there is ANY amount of light naturally in there and you leave for a couple of weeks. It will probably be completely exposed anyways. And even if it isnt completely exposed you would need a control cartage to know how much light it would have been exposed to without the lights being turned on. Great idea though.
I like this idea! However, if the camera film was new/unexposed before, they could (in theory) just replace it with another piece of unused camera film from the same brand and it would look just the same. To make it even harder, use film that has ALREADY been used/exposed for photos but not yet developed; that way, once the light is on and the damage is done, they wouldn't be able to reproduce the pre-damaged film.
Put clear tape with the adhesive side up on the floor, sticks to people's shoes, you know that someone has been there and can check people's shoes later.
@@senseitubagoo1345 not really there trying to be stealthy so they'd be wearing shoes of some variety and its not stuck to anything until they step on it so there's no effort needed to pick it up to begin with
I seriously cannot emphasize enough how Brian, Jason, and everyone else involved with TMR are important to me, a dude in my 20s feeling myself get older RAPIDLY, as examples of people who didn't just lose all trace of being able to have fun when they turned 28.
i really hope we get the opposite episode to this where we're shown ways to toss a room without leaving a trace, on a totally unrelated note, carrying a small pocket sized first aid kit means you will always have a set of latex gloves on you . . . so you don't spread any germs while administering first aid, obviously, i can't think of any other uses for them ;)
I would love to see versus episodes. Jason sets the traps, Brian tries to find the thing, then Jason comes back and tries to see if he can figure out what's been touched and what hasn't.
This is the difference between "covert" and "clandestine." "Covert" means that the target will know that something happened, but won't know exactly who is responsible, whereas "clandestine" means that the target will never know that anything happened at all.
There's a majestical element to capes and cloaks. I reckon he's well versed in cape and cloak safety tho, like not flicking them about near a BBQ cos you've got a few seconds to dump it before it gets a bit dangerous, depending on what material your cape - cotton, polyester or poly-cotton (65% polyester/35% cotton). This is why I choose cotton for capes and eye up where there are flames as polyester, polycotton and plastic sheets are bad ideas 😂😂😂
I half expected the book to be attached to the back of the door, I've always been a big fan of placing something in a door like a small piece of paper to show when something has been opened, or using things in the environment like a water bottle, USB cable, or headphone wire stretched across something that would be hard to place back the same way or just be missed because it appears to be just the state of the item in the room normally. I also tend to make patterns only I would recognize, maybe with coins, it looks random to anyone else, but makes sense to me.
One of the more obvious methods for identifying if a room has been searched in to simply put a small wooden peg inbetween the main door and the doorjam, low enough that it wont cause too much of a sound, and small enough that it may go un-noticed. A good example of this can be seen in the 2011 movie adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
I think putting small, easy to miss seals on things is a great strategy cause they will be exceptionally hard to fix, unlike the books, or the powder since a spy might have some anyways. But more importantly, the more traps, the merrier, If you have to go through like 20 different traps for each red herring, eventually you'll get tired, feel rushed, and slip up somewhere.
My favorite as a medical trainer doing CBRN was to use Glow Germ, look it up. There is no end to the fun when you kill the lights and walk up and down the line of trainees with a blacklight watching everyone glowing like they had been at a Rave. Use your phone camera to search. Makes it easier to look under and around things as well as document.
One way to quickly know if someone has been in your room is too leave your door handel slightly slanted and when the person then walks out, they will leave it straight, which then mean that when you come back to the room, you will see it and know
one problem with this it doesn't work on round door handles there's nothing to slant for info (though if my bedroom door handle is anything to go by if the damn thing is still attached to the door helps)
Edward Snowden, in his hotel room, took a napkin and dotted it with ink then set it on top of a glass of water and left it just inside the door. Someone entering carelessly would knock it over and the ink spots on the napkin would run.
Ive folded pieces of paper and jammed them in a door crack. Fold them so in half so many times that they're springy. Then when someone opens the door it releases the "spring," it will fall to the floor and look like a piece of garbage and you will see if someone has opened the door.
You can supercharge that with two pieces, one already lying on the floor. Not necessarily paper (too textbook), but two pieces of junk. That way even if they put one back, it could be the wrong one, and if they do both - even better.
A classic one that I heard was putting a peanut under a rug right at the door, so if someone steps on it, the peanut is squished. Awesome episode, I love these ones, where there is a room set up and stuff. (like the hiding things in hotel rooms episode)
@@superslimanoniem4712 You say you want something less noticeable but why? I can't think of any reason someone realizing there are traps in play hurts you. If they know that they might leave a trace it may force them to take longer, or not want to risk it.
Rule #1 of Forensic Science. EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE. If you pay enough attention, every contact someone leaves, gloved, wearing bootwrap, even the protection measured leave traces, which can prove someone was somewhere, and with enough work, WHO was there.
Very simple: leave one of the screws on the vent loose by 1 turn, if the screw is fully installed then someone may have installed a bug or got looked at the stuff you hid there.
@@jameswest6232 both, the obvious trap was a controll for someone entering with honest intent. Basically both traps triggered or no trap triggered is unsuspicous but one trap rearmed is concerning.
tricks i have liked in the past - light coat of UV powder on the door handle (anything touched immediately after will show the print unless they change gloves) - very fine black thread used to create a break line when a drawer is opened (attached to back of cabinet, then to the handle) - odd ornaments that are hard to position perfectly the same way (like a rubiks cube that they might set back with the wrong face showing) - a fine thread (generally black) that is set at about ankle height in the opening of a doorway (like a closet) most people won't feel it break if it's fine enough - love the tape on the refrigerator trick, something as simple as a post-it note can work well here also (even if they put it back, it probably will be fully on the side of the fridge, not on both the side and the edge of the door)
a really simple way of showing if someone's been through a door is to close it most of the way and put something small and light behind it, something like a ball of paper, then close the door. when you re enter the room open the door only wide enough so you can look around it, if the paper ball (or whatever) is against the wall it means someone opened the door where as if the ball is touching the door it means it hasn't moved since you left. this works best if you have a draft excluder under the door so an intruder can't peek underneath before they open it.
I used to put a small piece of clear tape folded back on the my locker in basic training. Bc the instructors would come around and mess things up while we were our training. So I’d always know if/when they came to mess with my display.
The best methods are those that can't be replicated easily, like breakable things. Stuff like the lint, tape, books or chess piece could be replicated by a keen observer, but put something breakable and unique enough to not easily be replaced and it will be very hard to get around. Something like a pasta noodle set to break when a door opens (but don't keep that more of the noodle in the room). Also worth noting that a good trap doesn't necessarily need to be hidden as long as it can't be replaced or disarmed it'll serve its purpose visible or not, and by leaving it visible may even act as a deterrent on top of its normal use. Mind you this won't really matter much since you really won't know who entered the room, and honestly security cameras set to detect movement are probably a better bet if you're actually worried about something.
The Modern Rogue before: Hey guys today were going to be learning about/ making/ talking about ________. The modern Rogue now: Jason had an idea and Brian is just along for the ride.
Excellent point when you said that lockpicks could have scratched it They even have professional camera tools to look inside the lock to see if the pins have scratches
Remember when Mike Ehrmantraut from breaking bad leaves carbon paper under his doormat? It not only told him if people searched his house, it told him if they were still in his house, how many people there were, and what shoes they were wearing. Big brain moment if I ever saw one as simple as paper under a doormat.
Something I thought of with the fridge was to leave it turned off, or unplugged. The fridge would maintain it's cold, as long as it hasn't been opened. Once it's opened, the cold air would fall out and the it would be warm once the owner returns.
doesnt really apply here but i used to live in a house that had a long dirt driveway and i would always park my car and then drive it forward and then reverse it again at a slightly different angle thus makin a pattern with the tire treads marks that could only be duplicated by my car, i would do this at the beginning of the driveway and where i would park it. this would tell me if a different vehicle had been on the property before i even got to the house.
on top of a closet door, you could probably fit a post it note with some powder on it, and tape or tie it to the inside wall of the closet, so when the door opens it lets loose the payload. This honestly makes me want some UV powder for travelling.
Ooh, I'm curious if they also touched on some of the more paranoid stuff you can do to your tech to catch things like this in an environment you don't control (e.g. hotel rooms), because there's surprisingly many options there
I guess a good first step is encrypting your hard drive or taking your data with you. And don't put sensitive stuff on flash drives unless you have encrypted them.
@@beeestuff9819 there's a whole space of apps here, which you'd ideally put on a burner phone as there's some concern a truly skilled attacker could compromise (i.e. not gain access to the data but modify the boot process to capture your password) even an encrypted laptop given physical access - so you'd have a phone laying around that tries to record any noises, capture photos if possible etc as a sort of improvised alarm system. I think I read an EFF article about this, but can't seem to find it at a pinch.
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I’m so glad that Jason told us that there was no talc in the baby powder at the beginning of the episode because I had a minor freak out at the end for a half second when I remembered. Great episode! It was a lot of fun. I love the spy ones where I get to play both sides. How would I hide something in the room and what would I do to lay a trap? Where did Jason hide it? I liked the take a taking a photo idea. It’s simple and easy to compare later. The tape under the drawers was good too, because that won’t get disturbed by a traditional room service cleaning. I was proud of myself for figuring out where the book was before Brian. Sadly, I’ve known people who grew up in homes where their hidden diaries were found in their rooms leading to disastrous consequences, so I had good guesses as to where bad places to hide a book would be.
Another idea somebody told me when i was still a kid: 1) Take a rubber band with an unusual color (neon green etc.) And glue it fairly hidden to a drawer, a door or whatever so it rips apart when someone is opening it. Even if they are able to spot their mistake afterwards, the won't have another rubber band of this colorway as a replacement. 2) Place things according to a compass. Example: place the tip of a pen according to the number on you compass which resemble your birthday. If you are born on the fith of July then it is 47° (or 74° for that matter)
Me: looking for many different ways to tell if someones been in my room in the comments Every other commenter: "Well there's this cool trick from death note!" Also... Arrange marbles or whatever in a specific order but in a way that if the door opens they fall like dominos or something
Think I remember reading a book where the character set a tiny thread by the door to make it look like it fell out when the door was opened, and could tell signs of entry from the fact that the thread was reset.
I really thought it was going to be taped to the back of the door. :D The best hiding place I ever saw was something a friend did. He routered and chiselled out about a 6x4x1" cavity in the top surface of a door in his house. He then made a metal box that slipped into the hole and was a snug enough fit not to rattle about, but loose enough that he could lift that out with a magnet. He'd keep things like emergency cash and spare car keys in it. At the time I remember trying to work out any plausible scenario where someone might manage to find this hiding place. As he didn't have a cleaner (let alone a ridiculously thorough one who may decide to dust the top of doors !), or an other half of any description living with him, I never could.
I know I'm late to the party, but this is one that actually clued me in to the fact that my roommate looked around my room. Have something in your room that glows in the dark when charged with light, for example, I have this little bionicle figure whose head and hands glow in the dark, but he's on my dresser facing away from the window, so no light hits it unless the lights in my bedroom are on. I came home one day with him cleaning in the kitchen, I come into my room and the figure is glowing like a light! My roommate has gone to my room to grab any dishes that might have been in there, and I knew.
Ren & Stimpy taped a piece of a hair on a drawer (tape) (hair) (tape) so that only the strength of the hair had to be broken, rather than a piece of tape. It's also possible the hair could be pulled out of 1 side of the tape, which would also show it was opened. I suppose if you wanted to conserve tape, you could use 1 piece and poke holes to perforate it so that it tears easier.
marking the points the legs of a chair were on is good, the order of something like socks in a drawer is easy for the host to remember, it's also easy to put paper in the way of anything that moves so that it gets creased and falls to the floor
gotta commend jason, this setup was magnificent absolute perfect utilization of red herring - it was not too hard to find, just convincingly so, but it set off the spy on a run through a gauntlet of all kinds of trigger markers. with a sheer number of markers, he was bound to trip at least one of them.
Hole punch some little paper dots, place one on top of every door or between the hinges. You can also set things up so that they scratch, like hammer a nail very slightly in the frame of the door. If you want to go to lengths, you could place something that deforms on compression under your floor/carpet...
you can get little sticky back paper dots for craft projects etc, one of those over a padlock keyway would be a simple and effective way of making them tamper proof
As a person with strict parents, i have been learning the art of secrecy for years lol. There was a time when my dad hid the wifi router in his closet under a pink shirt. He went to work, we enjoyed the wifi, then i returned it under the same shirt and ensured that the clothes were stacked at the exact same order. He never noticed ;)
A classic that I clearly remember is putting a small piece of folded paper pinched between the bottom of the door and the frame of the door, so it falls when someone enters without permission, and also, the tape trick with clear tape at the bottom of the door frame so it breaks/unsticks the tape if anyone opens it.
one I've used in the past that works REALLY well for people entering your room is a trash can or some other item RIGHT behind the door just a hair away from the wall. Enough that someone entering the room WILL move it but not enough the person would obviously notice. also another great one for myself is cables. Things like cables left overtop of my keyboard on my desk or set in such a way if you aren't careful they will fall down/off. Similar to Jason's book stack. fly paper or some other slightly sticky item right by the door works well too to pick up a partial shoe imprint and is less conspicuous than the powder.
One of the best ways is to just take pictures of everything to see if it has been moved. It is really hard to make things go back exactly they way they were. Edit: they ended up doing that too
11:56 Possibly the meanest thing I've ever done to another human being was cover their ceiling fan blades with 3 tubes of glitter and just waited. Best part is them getting to see that horror show happen in real time without any way to stop it. It is truly the most cruel thing I have ever done and never ceases to make me smile.
stacked dice horizontally or vertically (on door top or the fan blade), remember the top face value on each dice if its disturbed they wont know the exact numbers similar to the beard hair one the spring from a ballpoint pen presssed when the drawer/door is shut, they open it 'boing'
Pro tip for people who search other people’s rooms: only search the rooms of cat owners. You’re welcome. Source: am cat owner. They destroy everything at every possible moment.
1) Have a box like the the toolbox in the closet this episode next to a wall. 2) Find a way to mark where the box was, such as by marker on the wall/whatever's behind it, on the floor, or even a piece of paper where the contact with the box is marked. 3) Make the marking wrong on purpose. This makes it somewhat obvious that you set out traps, but giving the illusion that you can reset and still be safe is nice. Another way to achieve the same effect is with the lint in the zipper, except the lint isn't in the zipper to begin with. It's already in the bag, sitting in an obvious place it could have reasonably fallen to when it was opened.
Was thinking maybe hospital corners are hard to refit if somebody wanted to look under the sheets, but then I thought a safety pin where fitted sheets tuck under, and if someone searches there it should tear them. Definitely gonna be caught that way.
Love this episode! It speaks to my paranoid heart. But just to add that extra bit of paranoia if you do try any of these options, like in your hotel room or something, the person who is hypothetically searching the room could just take pictures of items before they disturb stuff and then (if they are really good) just put it back the way it was in the photo. I actually know this from personal experience, i house sit for people often and always try and have the living room back to the way that the people left it. So i take photos of items on the coffee table and what not before hand and then put everything back the way it was. Yes i am well aware that it’s weird.
-As a kid, as I left my room, I would drop a sock on the floor behind my door. The next time a door was opened it would push the sock out of position. -If your desk drawer has a small lip, you can play a pencil, or other small object) in the lip that will drop into the drawer once opened. Keep multiples of said item in that drawer in case intruder attempts to reset as they will be likely to grab the wrong one. (pencil with chew-marks will be harder to distinguish from other chewed pencils...as opposed to the only red coloured pencil (in tase the caught a glimpse of the color) -You could set up a trap whereby its contents are emptied when a drawer is opened (say 6 or 7 marbles that will spill out and roll in a number of directions...or the chads from the catch tray of a hole puncher...). The double brilliance here comes in the trap being easy to reset...HOWEVER...you plant an extra thing (marble/chad/piece of confetti/etc...) nearby. If the trap was armed, but the decoy 'thing' was moved/stuffed into the trap as well...you would know you had an intruder and they were attempting to hide the fact.
Some techy options (in order of power concerns): 1. Hidden Cameras 2. Audio Recorders (no camera, make sure the mic is sufficiently boosted that you can hear things like footsteps and squeaky doors) 3. Light sensors, after all if you're gone nothing should really be changing, be careful around windows without blackout curtains though, great for closets, drawers, boxes etc. Of course, all of those can be wifi or sms enabled to send out alerts in real time. The last two are also fairly trivial to make yourself with a raspberry pi so you can tweak them to your liking/schedule, certainly possible with the camera too but not certain how difficult detecting movement/change would be without a 3rd party library/internet-service (you'd expect some visual changes just from a day-night cycle after all). Then there's various alarms that can be used like for traditional home security (magnets on doors etc.) that I'm sure could be modified into a portable form if there aren't any already sold for that purpose. A nice pressure sensor under a book that just "happened" to fall on the floor and not get picked up could be nice.
If you are hiding a book you can get a cover similar in size to the book and make it look like a different book entirely. Best place to hide things is in plain sight
A relative vacuums specific lines into the carpet to be able to tell someone's been in his apartment. Edit: I didn't think they would mention it. It's a great idea.
Easiest one I always use is some folded paper jammed on the handle side of the door. Near impossible to see, easy to identify if it's moved before you enter the room (so you can just walk on by and abandon the area), and almost impossible to bypass (not to mention exceptionally easy to do and works anywhere).
2:10 Oh its chainmail, and the fishnet exposed belly look wasn't intentional? I thought he was meant to be some sort of... drag queen/gay wizard, I was getting a lot of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" vibes out of that, lmao.
I used to use a folded label from clothing and position it, like a tent, behind the bottom corner of my bedroom door on the floor and then close the door. If I could feel it was there, when I returned, no one had been in. If I couldn't feel it, I slowly pushed the door and looked around to see how far the door had been pushed, to determine if someone had just looked in or if it was pushed far back and if they'd entered. Other than that, knowing people were scared of bees, a few times I caught a bee and left a potted flower the bee favoured near the door and off I went.
Could use photo paper to check for exposure to light or under a bed or in a wardrobe With sheets of paper draw a small line from one to another very easy to see if moved If willing to get technical a sizemograph made from raspi and placed in a nearby room or under the floor boards A short pice of cotton thread across the floor of matching color Power meter on rooms power can detect lights being turned on or computer being powered up Could go on but you get the point 🙃
One of my favs and sorry for incorrect terminology but door handle the bolt or striker? "part that closes it and goes into the hole in the doorframe that's covered by the metal striker plate thing u can wipe a thin layer of wax on that and turn the handle as you close it so it's unscuffed and basically invisible u can also use whiteout but more noticable but ur not really looking there anyways but when they close the door unless they also pre turn the handle all the way and gently close it it will scupp it off when they close the door. Also if there's a deep recesss I. The door jam put like 3-4 airsoft bbs in it so when they open it they fall loose on the floor the trick is to leave one or two extras that can fit laying inside the door so when they fall they think those were in there too and will put them back letting u know. Also attach a Popsicle stick to the bottom of the door so that when they open door it knocks down a lil yatzee hourglass, trick is u never had it standing up but left it on its side just left enough room that they can set it back up for u with door cracked. Or a piece of aluminum foil that's a lil crumbled that u take a picture of n leave inside your door so when they open it it crumbles it further and is impossible to recreate like it was and when I come home use a yardstick or something of the sort to gently push it back to make room to open door without hitting it with the do⁹ or and distorting the piece. Then compare to Plus u get a bonus pun point kuz "foiled their plan
My brother and I used to do this to each other all the time growing up. My favorite one he got me with was one time when I wanted to use his Gameboy when he was at a sleepover. He left his Pokemon Blue cartridge just barely out. Remember, back in the OG Gameboys there was a tab that locked the game in place when the power was on. It was out just enough that I didn't notice. He got me good on that one. The countermeasure I'm most proud of was when he was gone for a weekend and set up these kinds of traps. I gave our dad a legitimate reason to go into my brother's room, looking for a spare power cable, and he set off the traps for me. He came back, knew someone had been in his room. I denied it, and dad said, "oh that was me." Little did my brother know, I had full access. Not that there was anything exciting in there... If you have the time, you could apply the same tactic in a hotel situation if you could get housekeeping to arrive just before or just after you search the place.
Wow. First and Second Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons books. I'm impressed. (Also, a Rifts book, if I'm not mistaken.) ...oh, and good episode too. I love it when you guys surprise each other.
In uni, i brushed luminescent powder over handles and surfaces if i knew I was going to be away for a short time. Then just use a UV torch to see if there's any hand marks or finger prints. It has the added benefit of sticking to their hands so if they have a room in the house, their door handle will glow.
The thing that Light Yagami does in Death Note, put a piece of paper in between the door and the doorframe. I would suggest putting it almost at the bottom, it wouldn't be very noticeable, but down put it at the very bottom, leave some space between the paper and the floor. If someone tries to put back the paper, chances are that they'll put it towards the floor as much as possible because it looks like that is where it used to sit, at least if you just glance at it before opening the door. There was also something about pencil lead but I can't quite remember how that one worked. Here's a link of Light explaining his bedroom's DIY security. th-cam.com/video/zZBR9iQ7DRA/w-d-xo.html
Wire with a right angle bend placed in the hinge of the closet door, so when it opens the wire turns. Something behind the door easily moved by opening it if you're not aware but have black markers on the ground where it looks like it should go but was never there in the first place. Tape on the ends on the mattress Sheet of paper hidden between to sheets on the bed (if its crumpled or wrinkled its been deturbed)
A toothpick between the door and doorframe for the front door would fall when the door is opened, and is small enough to possibly go unnoticed. Also, placing a bottle on the handle inside the door so that it would fall and break if somebody turned the handle would work similarly to the chess piece. They’d know that they had fucked up, but also you would know upon returning
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Put a piece of graphite/lead for pencils in the door brackets.
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Please hide stuff inside a fan! How are you gonna discretely dismember a fan OR see inside of it (it has to have patterned grating)? Also try hiding stuff inside shoes or boots! The human eye can't look around that corner so you would need a camera to see a key that's stuck to the top of a shoe. Also also, could you hide something in a closed bottle? Something so large that you would need to break the entire bottle to get the contents perhaps? Bottle of perfume would also be fun. Really hope you read this!!
Tricks to see if someone’s searched your room.
1. Half toggle the light switch up. When someone comes in if they turn the light on, they will flip it all the way down when they turn it off leaving.
2. Place a Toothpick in the door jamb at a level of your choice, if it’s missing or put back at a different height you know the doors been opened.
3. Rotate your screwheads on light switches and power outlets to perfect X’s and +’s. If anyone removed the plate to install bugs and put the covers back on the screws will be out of line.
4. In that back of the breakfast at Tiffany’s picture frame the tabs that are holding the backing you should have all but one of them secured.
5. The coat hangers (with clothes hanging) in the closet could be arranged in a specific spaced pattern. So you know if someone checked the back of the closet.
6. A small piece of clear scotch tape folded over itself (so it’s not sticky.) placed under the right corner of a pillow on the bed or couch. If anyone moves the pillows, they will not set them back in the exact way where the tape was.
7. Use a BIC pen/ permanent marker to leave a desk drawer open an exact amount. Anyone searching a room will look in an unlocked drawer to see what’s in it. And when they are leaving if they don’t accidentally close it entirely (habit) they might leave it open a little. When you return Simply use the pen or marker that’s on the table to see if it’s still and exact fit/gap.
Do you do meth?
@@MaxDeckard no they read/watch a lot of spy and spy adjacent media
I know ive read at least 2 of these in the past month
I suggest doing it a precise amount off from perfect + or X because if it's precise it looks intentional, if it's off they might be more likely to think you don't care or notice whether it's aligned
Or just buy a small motion activated camera and hide it.
Leaving older light switches flipped half way could start electrical fires, do that at your own risk.
You could purposely leave fingerprints in certain places, so that if someone went through your stuff and then cleaned it, you would notice.
Ooh, that's a good one
Genius
I used to do that with my door handle & some boot wax on the underside. Not so noticeable that they'd see it on their hand, but still enough to tell if someone had cleaned the handle.
Also a bit of mechanical pencil graphite placed between the door & doorframe, about a foot above the floor. Too low to see at first glance when you're walking in, but easily noticeable if you know where it should be.
I had a problem of someone stealing from my room in university. I needed confirmation that someone was entering my *locked* bedroom.
@@TheLonelyBrit what kind of lock was on the door?
tbh i don't think the lock matters because the latch could've been slipped, under/over the door reach tools, and a variety of other things.
But i want to know out of curiosity.
@@heroslippy6666 having locked myself out of my own house a few times(didn't used to have the house keys attached to the car keys) it takes less time than you'd think with just lockpicking a door with some hairpins
usually took me something like 5-10 minutes
and I imagine if your actually practised at it less than 5 would be feasible and probably normal
If you’ve watched death note. The main character balanced a piece of pencil lead on his door hinge so if the door was opened the lead would snap.
He also used a piece of paper to keep their attention away from the lead.
He also booby-trapped a drawer with explosives to stop anyone getting his notebook, so hopefully they are selective with which techniques they choose to take from Death Note. 💥😂
Other than that, in the process of exploring Light's room, L also set up loads of bugs/covert CCTV, which would be an easy way to know if someone's been in your room (although it wouldn't make for as good of a video if Brian was immediately caught because there was a mini security camera recording the entrance to the room 😂).
i was about to, type that to he also left the door handle slightly crooked so he'd know it wasn't his family members
@@ManWithNoPlan if I remember correctly Light did know someone had been in his room to place surveillance equipment but only because of his small traps
And because of that he could play it cool and pretend to not see them while ryuk could find the cameras
@@thisaccountisntreal107 he realised due to some of the traps being re-armed, but not others (i think it was hair being re-armed, but lead being tripped)
If you made sure the room was pitch black, you could leave a camera film cartage exposed so when the lights are turned on you could tell by the film reacting.
This deserves upvotes
doesnt really work. if there is ANY amount of light naturally in there and you leave for a couple of weeks. It will probably be completely exposed anyways. And even if it isnt completely exposed you would need a control cartage to know how much light it would have been exposed to without the lights being turned on. Great idea though.
I like this idea! However, if the camera film was new/unexposed before, they could (in theory) just replace it with another piece of unused camera film from the same brand and it would look just the same. To make it even harder, use film that has ALREADY been used/exposed for photos but not yet developed; that way, once the light is on and the damage is done, they wouldn't be able to reproduce the pre-damaged film.
That's murder-mystery-novel clever.
Only problem, how do YOU get back into the room when it's daytime.
i enjoy how the episodes how jason is just hiding everything from brian now so he's as confused as the audience
I like that too but as a nice change of pace I want them both to be in the dark 😂
Put clear tape with the adhesive side up on the floor, sticks to people's shoes, you know that someone has been there and can check people's shoes later.
how the fuck
ok Einstein thanks a bunch
They would feel it
Very probable someone wouldn't step in it, because they have to place their foot in a very specific place
@@senseitubagoo1345 not really
there trying to be stealthy so they'd be wearing shoes of some variety
and its not stuck to anything until they step on it so there's no effort needed to pick it up to begin with
I seriously cannot emphasize enough how Brian, Jason, and everyone else involved with TMR are important to me, a dude in my 20s feeling myself get older RAPIDLY, as examples of people who didn't just lose all trace of being able to have fun when they turned 28.
i really hope we get the opposite episode to this where we're shown ways to toss a room without leaving a trace, on a totally unrelated note, carrying a small pocket sized first aid kit means you will always have a set of latex gloves on you . . . so you don't spread any germs while administering first aid, obviously, i can't think of any other uses for them ;)
It's really exactly the same video, pay attention to the possible traps and don't trigger them/reset them.
I would love to see versus episodes. Jason sets the traps, Brian tries to find the thing, then Jason comes back and tries to see if he can figure out what's been touched and what hasn't.
@@loganstrong5426 the show writes itself
@@loganstrong5426 That's a badass name you got there brother. Right on
This is the difference between "covert" and "clandestine."
"Covert" means that the target will know that something happened, but won't know exactly who is responsible, whereas "clandestine" means that the target will never know that anything happened at all.
Jason is well practiced in swooping into a room with a cape.
He probably wears it around the house every other day, you know he does.
#YesCapes #EdnaWasWrong #NormaliseWearingCapesInPublic #IWantACape
There's a majestical element to capes and cloaks. I reckon he's well versed in cape and cloak safety tho, like not flicking them about near a BBQ cos you've got a few seconds to dump it before it gets a bit dangerous, depending on what material your cape - cotton, polyester or poly-cotton (65% polyester/35% cotton). This is why I choose cotton for capes and eye up where there are flames as polyester, polycotton and plastic sheets are bad ideas 😂😂😂
while wearing a shirt that's too small for him.
protip: put a bomb in the room. If it explodes and it kills you when you come back, it means no one's been there.
Thats how i protect my search history, one on the spot and one glued to my spine. If someone sees that humiliation i might aswell go
I love this one, I'll definitively used it, thanks.
Once again bring back
CAUSE IMMA MODERN ROOOOOOOOOGUE
Yes
i miss that sting too
Im a modern rOOOOOoooOOoogue, hiding shit, in, the holes of my sweater
It was amazing
I half expected the book to be attached to the back of the door, I've always been a big fan of placing something in a door like a small piece of paper to show when something has been opened, or using things in the environment like a water bottle, USB cable, or headphone wire stretched across something that would be hard to place back the same way or just be missed because it appears to be just the state of the item in the room normally. I also tend to make patterns only I would recognize, maybe with coins, it looks random to anyone else, but makes sense to me.
Put a little wax on a hinge. It will crack when the hinge moves.
I want to play DnD with them sooo badly.
How would you get out of the room if the hinges are on the inside
@@Crazyclay78YT that tactic is mainly for safes, lockers etc. Maybe for windows as well.
@@ChrisKing25 yeah I guess it makes more sense on those
That’s so smart
"I've read 1984! I know the thing with the hair!"
*Falls for the hair trick*
One of the more obvious methods for identifying if a room has been searched in to simply put a small wooden peg inbetween the main door and the doorjam, low enough that it wont cause too much of a sound, and small enough that it may go un-noticed.
A good example of this can be seen in the 2011 movie adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
12:10 my tip is to duct tape a claymore to a roomba and call it a boomba.
The DnD start made me think of taping a claymore sword to the roomba
Doomba
@@notchbrine25 I thought Sword at first too o.o
@@notchbrine25 Glad I'm not the only medieval nerd here
If it's not from IRobot, it's not a Boomba.
Wait, there's going to be a Dungeons and Dragons episode? Don't tease us like that Jason!
I think putting small, easy to miss seals on things is a great strategy cause they will be exceptionally hard to fix, unlike the books, or the powder since a spy might have some anyways. But more importantly, the more traps, the merrier, If you have to go through like 20 different traps for each red herring, eventually you'll get tired, feel rushed, and slip up somewhere.
My favorite as a medical trainer doing CBRN was to use Glow Germ, look it up.
There is no end to the fun when you kill the lights and walk up and down the line of trainees with a blacklight watching everyone glowing like they had been at a Rave.
Use your phone camera to search. Makes it easier to look under and around things as well as document.
If youve spent any time living i military barracks, youll learn right quick how to tell if someones been i your room
Came here to comment this lol
Question was it room inspect or a crazy ex or that one jackass who steals your shit
@@armorhide406 all 3
by the nature of barracks someone else is going to have been in your room, probably even several someones, that's the point of them
@@stocktonjoans to a point yes, but modern barracks are like small apartments. The individual rooms have keycard locks
I love that the theme of The Modern Rogue this year has just been Jason flying further and further off the handle
Read his books....he's gone man way gone already
Now I want a full D&D episode.
One way to quickly know if someone has been in your room is too leave your door handel slightly slanted and when the person then walks out, they will leave it straight, which then mean that when you come back to the room, you will see it and know
Also bribe Ryuk with apples
@@wilfredomadrigal8803 Many.
one problem with this
it doesn't work on round door handles there's nothing to slant for info (though if my bedroom door handle is anything to go by if the damn thing is still attached to the door helps)
Edward Snowden, in his hotel room, took a napkin and dotted it with ink then set it on top of a glass of water and left it just inside the door. Someone entering carelessly would knock it over and the ink spots on the napkin would run.
Ive folded pieces of paper and jammed them in a door crack. Fold them so in half so many times that they're springy. Then when someone opens the door it releases the "spring," it will fall to the floor and look like a piece of garbage and you will see if someone has opened the door.
Also clear tape 😉from door 🚪 to crack
You can supercharge that with two pieces, one already lying on the floor. Not necessarily paper (too textbook), but two pieces of junk. That way even if they put one back, it could be the wrong one, and if they do both - even better.
I should have checked the comments more thoroughly before making mine. This is my go to trick.
A classic one that I heard was putting a peanut under a rug right at the door, so if someone steps on it, the peanut is squished.
Awesome episode, I love these ones, where there is a room set up and stuff. (like the hiding things in hotel rooms episode)
Something less noticable maybe? You could feel it with your shoes.
@@superslimanoniem4712 You say you want something less noticeable but why? I can't think of any reason someone realizing there are traps in play hurts you. If they know that they might leave a trace it may force them to take longer, or not want to risk it.
@@superslimanoniem4712 If you really want something that isn't noticed, pickled green pepercorns might work well. They are squishy enough I think...
Underated. Maybe it could be a piece of egg shell.
could be an easy one to detect/reset, but I was thinking have the hangers spaced out in a certain pattern, in case they move them
Yeah, not a good one because a real pro would likely take pictures before touching anything.
@@BaldMancTwat
hey, if the books from the video is a good one, this one is pretty much on the same level
Rule #1 of Forensic Science. EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE. If you pay enough attention, every contact someone leaves, gloved, wearing bootwrap, even the protection measured leave traces, which can prove someone was somewhere, and with enough work, WHO was there.
Very simple: leave one of the screws on the vent loose by 1 turn, if the screw is fully installed then someone may have installed a bug or got looked at the stuff you hid there.
I remember that in Death Note, Light balances a piece of mechanical pencil graphite on a door hinge so that it will snap if anyone opens the door.
I'm still trying to figure out how to pull that one off IRL
It was also a red herring. The cops actually went in and replaced the lead, but he still knew because he had a second trap set.
@@PatLund Other way around, man. The cops replaced the slip of paper in his door, but the pencil lead was the real test.
@@jameswest6232 both, the obvious trap was a controll for someone entering with honest intent. Basically both traps triggered or no trap triggered is unsuspicous but one trap rearmed is concerning.
tricks i have liked in the past - light coat of UV powder on the door handle (anything touched immediately after will show the print unless they change gloves) - very fine black thread used to create a break line when a drawer is opened (attached to back of cabinet, then to the handle) - odd ornaments that are hard to position perfectly the same way (like a rubiks cube that they might set back with the wrong face showing) - a fine thread (generally black) that is set at about ankle height in the opening of a doorway (like a closet) most people won't feel it break if it's fine enough - love the tape on the refrigerator trick, something as simple as a post-it note can work well here also (even if they put it back, it probably will be fully on the side of the fridge, not on both the side and the edge of the door)
a really simple way of showing if someone's been through a door is to close it most of the way and put something small and light behind it, something like a ball of paper, then close the door. when you re enter the room open the door only wide enough so you can look around it, if the paper ball (or whatever) is against the wall it means someone opened the door where as if the ball is touching the door it means it hasn't moved since you left. this works best if you have a draft excluder under the door so an intruder can't peek underneath before they open it.
Brian seeing the smoke under the door: it's either Satan or ...
Me seeing Jason standing outside the door: yep it's Satan.
Lol
Dude you guys should do a non lethal booby trap room and see if Brian can disarm or get past them
Omg the earplugs at around 8:35 seals the deal. Well done, Jason, that's a I can say.
I used to put a small piece of clear tape folded back on the my locker in basic training. Bc the instructors would come around and mess things up while we were our training. So I’d always know if/when they came to mess with my display.
The best methods are those that can't be replicated easily, like breakable things. Stuff like the lint, tape, books or chess piece could be replicated by a keen observer, but put something breakable and unique enough to not easily be replaced and it will be very hard to get around. Something like a pasta noodle set to break when a door opens (but don't keep that more of the noodle in the room). Also worth noting that a good trap doesn't necessarily need to be hidden as long as it can't be replaced or disarmed it'll serve its purpose visible or not, and by leaving it visible may even act as a deterrent on top of its normal use.
Mind you this won't really matter much since you really won't know who entered the room, and honestly security cameras set to detect movement are probably a better bet if you're actually worried about something.
The Modern Rogue before:
Hey guys today were going to be learning about/ making/ talking about ________.
The modern Rogue now:
Jason had an idea and Brian is just along for the ride.
Excellent point when you said that lockpicks could have scratched it
They even have professional camera tools to look inside the lock to see if the pins have scratches
Remember when Mike Ehrmantraut from breaking bad leaves carbon paper under his doormat? It not only told him if people searched his house, it told him if they were still in his house, how many people there were, and what shoes they were wearing.
Big brain moment if I ever saw one as simple as paper under a doormat.
Something I thought of with the fridge was to leave it turned off, or unplugged.
The fridge would maintain it's cold, as long as it hasn't been opened.
Once it's opened, the cold air would fall out and the it would be warm once the owner returns.
That would only work for a limited time. It would not stay cold forever and most are at room temperature the next day.
Pencil lead in the door hinge has always been my favorite. Everyone misses that
The actual subterfuge occurring here is the impostor imitating Brian. (He's not wearing flip-flops.)
This guy is actually a manly man!
Brian has been replaced with a changeling, confirmed.
Via Death Note: A piece of mechanical pencil graphite in the door hinge.
this was my first thought when i saw the video
Sprinkling UV powder on the mat outside will show where someone has walked
or just a piece of paper, if it’s crinkled, somebody was there
doesnt really apply here but i used to live in a house that had a long dirt driveway and i would always park my car and then drive it forward and then reverse it again at a slightly different angle thus makin a pattern with the tire treads marks that could only be duplicated by my car, i would do this at the beginning of the driveway and where i would park it. this would tell me if a different vehicle had been on the property before i even got to the house.
on top of a closet door, you could probably fit a post it note with some powder on it, and tape or tie it to the inside wall of the closet, so when the door opens it lets loose the payload. This honestly makes me want some UV powder for travelling.
Ooh, I'm curious if they also touched on some of the more paranoid stuff you can do to your tech to catch things like this in an environment you don't control (e.g. hotel rooms), because there's surprisingly many options there
please, Tell us more.
I guess a good first step is encrypting your hard drive or taking your data with you. And don't put sensitive stuff on flash drives unless you have encrypted them.
@@beeestuff9819 there's a whole space of apps here, which you'd ideally put on a burner phone as there's some concern a truly skilled attacker could compromise (i.e. not gain access to the data but modify the boot process to capture your password) even an encrypted laptop given physical access - so you'd have a phone laying around that tries to record any noises, capture photos if possible etc as a sort of improvised alarm system. I think I read an EFF article about this, but can't seem to find it at a pinch.
You can stick "overheat detection sticker" to lightbulb and know if it was turned on.
I WOULD say, "Now THIS is the kind of videos I am subscribed for!",
but then I think for a second and realize, I would say that about possibly every video on this channel.
It's as if this TH-cam channel was made specifically for me (and over a million other people).
Jason looks like he's going to some underground vampire club! 🤣
Probably is lol
He's going to elysium after the shoot.
6:41THE HONK OF WRONGDOR IS THE ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT!!!
I’m so glad that Jason told us that there was no talc in the baby powder at the beginning of the episode because I had a minor freak out at the end for a half second when I remembered.
Great episode! It was a lot of fun. I love the spy ones where I get to play both sides. How would I hide something in the room and what would I do to lay a trap? Where did Jason hide it? I liked the take a taking a photo idea. It’s simple and easy to compare later. The tape under the drawers was good too, because that won’t get disturbed by a traditional room service cleaning. I was proud of myself for figuring out where the book was before Brian. Sadly, I’ve known people who grew up in homes where their hidden diaries were found in their rooms leading to disastrous consequences, so I had good guesses as to where bad places to hide a book would be.
Another idea somebody told me when i was still a kid:
1)
Take a rubber band with an unusual color (neon green etc.) And glue it fairly hidden to a drawer, a door or whatever so it rips apart when someone is opening it. Even if they are able to spot their mistake afterwards, the won't have another rubber band of this colorway as a replacement.
2)
Place things according to a compass. Example: place the tip of a pen according to the number on you compass which resemble your birthday. If you are born on the fith of July then it is 47° (or 74° for that matter)
Me: looking for many different ways to tell if someones been in my room in the comments
Every other commenter: "Well there's this cool trick from death note!"
Also... Arrange marbles or whatever in a specific order but in a way that if the door opens they fall like dominos or something
Think I remember reading a book where the character set a tiny thread by the door to make it look like it fell out when the door was opened, and could tell signs of entry from the fact that the thread was reset.
I really thought it was going to be taped to the back of the door. :D
The best hiding place I ever saw was something a friend did. He routered and chiselled out about a 6x4x1" cavity in the top surface of a door in his house. He then made a metal box that slipped into the hole and was a snug enough fit not to rattle about, but loose enough that he could lift that out with a magnet. He'd keep things like emergency cash and spare car keys in it.
At the time I remember trying to work out any plausible scenario where someone might manage to find this hiding place. As he didn't have a cleaner (let alone a ridiculously thorough one who may decide to dust the top of doors !), or an other half of any description living with him, I never could.
I know I'm late to the party, but this is one that actually clued me in to the fact that my roommate looked around my room. Have something in your room that glows in the dark when charged with light, for example, I have this little bionicle figure whose head and hands glow in the dark, but he's on my dresser facing away from the window, so no light hits it unless the lights in my bedroom are on. I came home one day with him cleaning in the kitchen, I come into my room and the figure is glowing like a light! My roommate has gone to my room to grab any dishes that might have been in there, and I knew.
Ren & Stimpy taped a piece of a hair on a drawer (tape) (hair) (tape) so that only the strength of the hair had to be broken, rather than a piece of tape. It's also possible the hair could be pulled out of 1 side of the tape, which would also show it was opened.
I suppose if you wanted to conserve tape, you could use 1 piece and poke holes to perforate it so that it tears easier.
marking the points the legs of a chair were on is good, the order of something like socks in a drawer is easy for the host to remember, it's also easy to put paper in the way of anything that moves so that it gets creased and falls to the floor
gotta commend jason, this setup was magnificent
absolute perfect utilization of red herring - it was not too hard to find, just convincingly so, but it set off the spy on a run through a gauntlet of all kinds of trigger markers. with a sheer number of markers, he was bound to trip at least one of them.
Hole punch some little paper dots, place one on top of every door or between the hinges. You can also set things up so that they scratch, like hammer a nail very slightly in the frame of the door. If you want to go to lengths, you could place something that deforms on compression under your floor/carpet...
"Either Satan is about to show up, or we are about to have a rad disco."
you can get little sticky back paper dots for craft projects etc, one of those over a padlock keyway would be a simple and effective way of making them tamper proof
But you would notice it's there before you search, which would make you beore on the lookout for other traps.
@@superslimanoniem4712 i was thinking more for a locked gate or something at a remote location rather than a padlocked box like in the vid
As a person with strict parents, i have been learning the art of secrecy for years lol.
There was a time when my dad hid the wifi router in his closet under a pink shirt. He went to work, we enjoyed the wifi, then i returned it under the same shirt and ensured that the clothes were stacked at the exact same order. He never noticed ;)
Nice to see brian has become more discrete in his searching methods compared to the hotel episode
A classic that I clearly remember is putting a small piece of folded paper pinched between the bottom of the door and the frame of the door, so it falls when someone enters without permission, and also, the tape trick with clear tape at the bottom of the door frame so it breaks/unsticks the tape if anyone opens it.
one I've used in the past that works REALLY well for people entering your room is a trash can or some other item RIGHT behind the door just a hair away from the wall. Enough that someone entering the room WILL move it but not enough the person would obviously notice. also another great one for myself is cables. Things like cables left overtop of my keyboard on my desk or set in such a way if you aren't careful they will fall down/off. Similar to Jason's book stack. fly paper or some other slightly sticky item right by the door works well too to pick up a partial shoe imprint and is less conspicuous than the powder.
One of the best ways is to just take pictures of everything to see if it has been moved. It is really hard to make things go back exactly they way they were.
Edit: they ended up doing that too
this is why you dont comment till after the video is over
@@DismemberTheAlamo cool
@@moscuadelendaest yes, but some things are hard to replicate, a blanket that's been moved is not gonna look the same for example
11:56 Possibly the meanest thing I've ever done to another human being was cover their ceiling fan blades with 3 tubes of glitter and just waited. Best part is them getting to see that horror show happen in real time without any way to stop it. It is truly the most cruel thing I have ever done and never ceases to make me smile.
The hair in the drawer was super clever, and I loved the final hiding spot!
stacked dice horizontally or vertically (on door top or the fan blade), remember the top face value on each dice if its disturbed they wont know the exact numbers
similar to the beard hair one
the spring from a ballpoint pen presssed when the drawer/door is shut, they open it 'boing'
Pro tip for people who search other people’s rooms: only search the rooms of cat owners. You’re welcome. Source: am cat owner. They destroy everything at every possible moment.
1) Have a box like the the toolbox in the closet this episode next to a wall.
2) Find a way to mark where the box was, such as by marker on the wall/whatever's behind it, on the floor, or even a piece of paper where the contact with the box is marked.
3) Make the marking wrong on purpose.
This makes it somewhat obvious that you set out traps, but giving the illusion that you can reset and still be safe is nice. Another way to achieve the same effect is with the lint in the zipper, except the lint isn't in the zipper to begin with. It's already in the bag, sitting in an obvious place it could have reasonably fallen to when it was opened.
Was thinking maybe hospital corners are hard to refit if somebody wanted to look under the sheets, but then I thought a safety pin where fitted sheets tuck under, and if someone searches there it should tear them. Definitely gonna be caught that way.
Love this episode! It speaks to my paranoid heart. But just to add that extra bit of paranoia if you do try any of these options, like in your hotel room or something, the person who is hypothetically searching the room could just take pictures of items before they disturb stuff and then (if they are really good) just put it back the way it was in the photo.
I actually know this from personal experience, i house sit for people often and always try and have the living room back to the way that the people left it. So i take photos of items on the coffee table and what not before hand and then put everything back the way it was.
Yes i am well aware that it’s weird.
But if you're house sitting, isn't the whole point that you WERE there? Ha, ha
If it's any type of law enforcement, you'll know instantly, and probably before you even get to your room.
-As a kid, as I left my room, I would drop a sock on the floor behind my door. The next time a door was opened it would push the sock out of position.
-If your desk drawer has a small lip, you can play a pencil, or other small object) in the lip that will drop into the drawer once opened. Keep multiples of said item in that drawer in case intruder attempts to reset as they will be likely to grab the wrong one. (pencil with chew-marks will be harder to distinguish from other chewed pencils...as opposed to the only red coloured pencil (in tase the caught a glimpse of the color)
-You could set up a trap whereby its contents are emptied when a drawer is opened (say 6 or 7 marbles that will spill out and roll in a number of directions...or the chads from the catch tray of a hole puncher...). The double brilliance here comes in the trap being easy to reset...HOWEVER...you plant an extra thing (marble/chad/piece of confetti/etc...) nearby. If the trap was armed, but the decoy 'thing' was moved/stuffed into the trap as well...you would know you had an intruder and they were attempting to hide the fact.
Some techy options (in order of power concerns):
1. Hidden Cameras
2. Audio Recorders (no camera, make sure the mic is sufficiently boosted that you can hear things like footsteps and squeaky doors)
3. Light sensors, after all if you're gone nothing should really be changing, be careful around windows without blackout curtains though, great for closets, drawers, boxes etc.
Of course, all of those can be wifi or sms enabled to send out alerts in real time. The last two are also fairly trivial to make yourself with a raspberry pi so you can tweak them to your liking/schedule, certainly possible with the camera too but not certain how difficult detecting movement/change would be without a 3rd party library/internet-service (you'd expect some visual changes just from a day-night cycle after all).
Then there's various alarms that can be used like for traditional home security (magnets on doors etc.) that I'm sure could be modified into a portable form if there aren't any already sold for that purpose. A nice pressure sensor under a book that just "happened" to fall on the floor and not get picked up could be nice.
Jason's laugh at 11:24 is a nervous evil humility laugh
If you are hiding a book you can get a cover similar in size to the book and make it look like a different book entirely. Best place to hide things is in plain sight
Like that one scene in death note you could leave a piece of lead in the door frame so it breaks when you open the door
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A relative vacuums specific lines into the carpet to be able to tell someone's been in his apartment.
Edit: I didn't think they would mention it. It's a great idea.
Easiest one I always use is some folded paper jammed on the handle side of the door. Near impossible to see, easy to identify if it's moved before you enter the room (so you can just walk on by and abandon the area), and almost impossible to bypass (not to mention exceptionally easy to do and works anywhere).
Need to make a trip down to Austin and check out the Handle Bar.
2:10 Oh its chainmail, and the fishnet exposed belly look wasn't intentional? I thought he was meant to be some sort of... drag queen/gay wizard, I was getting a lot of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" vibes out of that, lmao.
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I used to use a folded label from clothing and position it, like a tent, behind the bottom corner of my bedroom door on the floor and then close the door. If I could feel it was there, when I returned, no one had been in. If I couldn't feel it, I slowly pushed the door and looked around to see how far the door had been pushed, to determine if someone had just looked in or if it was pushed far back and if they'd entered. Other than that, knowing people were scared of bees, a few times I caught a bee and left a potted flower the bee favoured near the door and off I went.
Could use photo paper to check for exposure to light or under a bed or in a wardrobe
With sheets of paper draw a small line from one to another very easy to see if moved
If willing to get technical a sizemograph made from raspi and placed in a nearby room or under the floor boards
A short pice of cotton thread across the floor of matching color
Power meter on rooms power can detect lights being turned on or computer being powered up
Could go on but you get the point 🙃
One of my favs and sorry for incorrect terminology but door handle the bolt or striker? "part that closes it and goes into the hole in the doorframe that's covered by the metal striker plate thing u can wipe a thin layer of wax on that and turn the handle as you close it so it's unscuffed and basically invisible u can also use whiteout but more noticable but ur not really looking there anyways but when they close the door unless they also pre turn the handle all the way and gently close it it will scupp it off when they close the door. Also if there's a deep recesss I. The door jam put like 3-4 airsoft bbs in it so when they open it they fall loose on the floor the trick is to leave one or two extras that can fit laying inside the door so when they fall they think those were in there too and will put them back letting u know.
Also attach a Popsicle stick to the bottom of the door so that when they open door it knocks down a lil yatzee hourglass, trick is u never had it standing up but left it on its side just left enough room that they can set it back up for u with door cracked.
Or a piece of aluminum foil that's a lil crumbled that u take a picture of n leave inside your door so when they open it it crumbles it further and is impossible to recreate like it was and when I come home use a yardstick or something of the sort to gently push it back to make room to open door without hitting it with the do⁹ or and distorting the piece. Then compare to Plus u get a bonus pun point kuz "foiled their plan
My brother and I used to do this to each other all the time growing up. My favorite one he got me with was one time when I wanted to use his Gameboy when he was at a sleepover. He left his Pokemon Blue cartridge just barely out. Remember, back in the OG Gameboys there was a tab that locked the game in place when the power was on. It was out just enough that I didn't notice. He got me good on that one. The countermeasure I'm most proud of was when he was gone for a weekend and set up these kinds of traps. I gave our dad a legitimate reason to go into my brother's room, looking for a spare power cable, and he set off the traps for me. He came back, knew someone had been in his room. I denied it, and dad said, "oh that was me." Little did my brother know, I had full access. Not that there was anything exciting in there... If you have the time, you could apply the same tactic in a hotel situation if you could get housekeeping to arrive just before or just after you search the place.
This episode out of anything you ever put out has made me the most paranoid. And I'll still be watching lol
Wow. First and Second Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons books. I'm impressed. (Also, a Rifts book, if I'm not mistaken.) ...oh, and good episode too. I love it when you guys surprise each other.
In uni, i brushed luminescent powder over handles and surfaces if i knew I was going to be away for a short time. Then just use a UV torch to see if there's any hand marks or finger prints. It has the added benefit of sticking to their hands so if they have a room in the house, their door handle will glow.
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gettin that asbestos lung
Ayyyo gotta say in the pile of table top books, I noticed that rifts guide book. Good stuff right there
The thing that Light Yagami does in Death Note, put a piece of paper in between the door and the doorframe. I would suggest putting it almost at the bottom, it wouldn't be very noticeable, but down put it at the very bottom, leave some space between the paper and the floor. If someone tries to put back the paper, chances are that they'll put it towards the floor as much as possible because it looks like that is where it used to sit, at least if you just glance at it before opening the door. There was also something about pencil lead but I can't quite remember how that one worked.
Here's a link of Light explaining his bedroom's DIY security.
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We all know Brian is good at ripping apart hotel rooms, but this is a challenge truly for him
Wire with a right angle bend placed in the hinge of the closet door, so when it opens the wire turns.
Something behind the door easily moved by opening it if you're not aware but have black markers on the ground where it looks like it should go but was never there in the first place.
Tape on the ends on the mattress
Sheet of paper hidden between to sheets on the bed (if its crumpled or wrinkled its been deturbed)
A toothpick between the door and doorframe for the front door would fall when the door is opened, and is small enough to possibly go unnoticed. Also, placing a bottle on the handle inside the door so that it would fall and break if somebody turned the handle would work similarly to the chess piece. They’d know that they had fucked up, but also you would know upon returning