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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!!
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
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
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
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)
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just live your life as a moderately broke person, no one would even want to go through your stuff. Pro Tip: you can really sell the look by working at a low paying, dead end job.
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
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.
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 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.
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. ua-cam.com/video/zZBR9iQ7DRA/v-deo.html
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
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.
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)
One of the obvious trap variety: use some ink or red wine to create a stain on a rug when a door is opened. Even if they are prepared to clean it then ha! Good luck! The obviousness of it can make an intruder second guess sneaking around cause they know they've been discovered.
"I don't have a lockpic [disgruntled muttering] i should have a lockpick" Brian, i am so dissapointed in you, i really expected you and jason to carry at least one in your EDC's
-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.
Leave a piece of cardboard infront of the door on the floor, write "gatcha" on it. If when you come back it's ON the door. Well you'll know it's been tampered lol
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
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.
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
I got to 13 mins in and thought 'Ooohh, He could've hid it behind the door!' as It's an immediate hiding place so I looked for hooks and stuff and the book could've been put into a net bag or something similar.
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 UA-cam channel was made specifically for me (and over a million other people).
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
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'
A little bit of masking tape curled like a C stuck to the top of the door of the room and the doorjam. Not enough resistance to be felt, but an easily seen and not easy false-alarm for if someone has entered the room. Also, a mechanical pencil lead tucked on the door hinge between the door and the jam.
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.
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.
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).
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...
This is completely unrelated to this video, but I have an idea for a video. You guys have done the lightsaber vs drone video, but what if you did a video where you used the sword fighting knowledge you have learned over the course of this channel and did a lightsaber duel?
A WiFi pineapple like device that impersonates something that the intruder's phone usually automatically connects to. Then all you have to do is check the logs.
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.
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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!!
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
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.
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@@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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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)
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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
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 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.
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 😂
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.
Wait, there's going to be a Dungeons and Dragons episode? Don't tease us like that Jason!
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.
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.
"I've read 1984! I know the thing with the hair!"
*Falls for the hair trick*
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
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.
Dude you guys should do a non lethal booby trap room and see if Brian can disarm or get past them
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Now I want a full D&D episode.
Exactly what I was thinking
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
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.
Brian seeing the smoke under the door: it's either Satan or ...
Me seeing Jason standing outside the door: yep it's Satan.
Lol
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.
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.
@@lars_of_the_north I can make you a man
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.
Via Death Note: A piece of mechanical pencil graphite in the door hinge.
this was my first thought when i saw the video
You can stick "overheat detection sticker" to lightbulb and know if it was turned on.
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 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.
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.
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.
"I was a coal miner down in the baby powder mines" Jason Murphy 2021
gettin that asbestos lung
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.
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.
On this episode, Brian visits the Casting Couch.
I had a feeling they were kinda hinting to that. I couldn’t tell if that was on purpose, or if I have a dirty mind
Jason: "I'm going to be hiding a number of objects . . . "
Brian: [Exit, Stage Right]
Jason looks like he's going to some underground vampire club! 🤣
Probably is lol
He's going to elysium after the shoot.
Just live your life as a moderately broke person, no one would even want to go through your stuff. Pro Tip: you can really sell the look by working at a low paying, dead end job.
Guessing this episode is meant to be "so you live in 'free' Hong Kong in 2021"
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
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.
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 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.
"Either Satan is about to show up, or we are about to have a rad disco."
If it's any type of law enforcement, you'll know instantly, and probably before you even get to your room.
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.
ua-cam.com/video/zZBR9iQ7DRA/v-deo.html
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
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.
Did my husband let Jason borrow his ren faire costume?
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
Inwas going to say that
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)
“I’m so honest I teach magic tricks”
One of the obvious trap variety: use some ink or red wine to create a stain on a rug when a door is opened. Even if they are prepared to clean it then ha! Good luck! The obviousness of it can make an intruder second guess sneaking around cause they know they've been discovered.
Okay that first shot with the couch was pretty sus
Fully
No it has to be a Black Leather couch to be that one. O.o
I hate that I know what you’re talking about.
"I don't have a lockpic [disgruntled muttering] i should have a lockpick"
Brian, i am so dissapointed in you, i really expected you and jason to carry at least one in your EDC's
You see LPL glaring menacingly from the window. But it’s not his face, it’s just his hands.
Put a small pencil lead in the Door henge so that when the door is opened in a specific way it breaks the lead.
-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.
As soon as I saw picture frames, I had it figured out, but I guessed the wrong picture frame.
Leave a piece of cardboard infront of the door on the floor, write "gatcha" on it.
If when you come back it's ON the door.
Well you'll know it's been tampered lol
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
How to tell if your room is searched. Simple. Do you have a wedding ring on your finger? Look at it, it was searched.
Exactly 🤣
Are they actually going to do an episode on D&D, if so that would be amazing.
I see the honk of wrongdor, I click
One does not simply honk into wrongdor
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.
Need to make a trip down to Austin and check out the Handle Bar.
Using mug handles pointing North, South, East or West to signal if someone was in the room
6:41THE HONK OF WRONGDOR IS THE ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT!!!
Evil trap: replace the chess piece with a ball-bearing or 3
They will know they triggered a trap, and have to go looking for them
Nice to see brian has become more discrete in his searching methods compared to the hotel episode
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
I totally have left my room long enough for someone to search it...
I got to 13 mins in and thought 'Ooohh, He could've hid it behind the door!' as It's an immediate hiding place so I looked for hooks and stuff and the book could've been put into a net bag or something similar.
A piece of paper in between the door and the door jamb.
(Stole this from death note)
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 UA-cam channel was made specifically for me (and over a million other people).
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
Death Note has the main character place a piece of pencil lead on the hinge of a door which breaks when the door is opened
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'
A little bit of masking tape curled like a C stuck to the top of the door of the room and the doorjam. Not enough resistance to be felt, but an easily seen and not easy false-alarm for if someone has entered the room.
Also, a mechanical pencil lead tucked on the door hinge between the door and the jam.
A good way to hide your murder book.
@@ctusiard9755 Thank you Death Note. Lol
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.
With time being so vital to the mission, a perfectly made bed would be a strong trap.
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.
Brian. You read 1984 but didn’t check behind the picture for a telescreen? Have fun at the Miniluv.
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).
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...
This is completely unrelated to this video, but I have an idea for a video. You guys have done the lightsaber vs drone video, but what if you did a video where you used the sword fighting knowledge you have learned over the course of this channel and did a lightsaber duel?
ah yes because i’ve been wondering
A WiFi pineapple like device that impersonates something that the intruder's phone usually automatically connects to. Then all you have to do is check the logs.
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.