Randomly Generated Catalog of Creepily Nondescript Domestic Surveillance Equipment

Rob Beschizza 3:55 pm Mon Sep 12, 2016

The Cobham catalog, exposed by The Intercept, features countless pages of surveillance gadgets sold to U.S. police to spy on American citizens: tiny black boxes with a big interest in you. In the creepily bland feature lists and nerdy product names is a whisper of a dark future; perhaps darker than anyone can imagine.

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