A Turkish Kurd watches the Syrian town of Kobani from near the Mursitpinar border crossing, on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Turkey. Reuters Archive.

A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask holds a paper-made mock TV camera during a demonstration against the National Security Agency (NSA) and in support of U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden, outside the «Dagger Complex», which is used by the U.S. Army intelligence services, in Griesheim, Germany. Reuters Archive.

An anti-government protester kicks a surveillance camera during clashes with police in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzagovina. Reuters Archive.

A photographer jumps over a smoke canister during a demonstration by firefighters, security and military personnel against cuts in their salaries imposed by Spanish Government, in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain. Reuters Archive.

Surveillance cameras overlook the building site of the new headquarters of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, during the building’s roofing ceremony in Berlin, Germany. Reuters Archive.

Egyptian security forces detain a press photographer during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt. Reuters Archive.

A policeman look at screens at the Paris Prefecture control room, France. Reuters Archive.

A gunman aims his rifle inside a store during an attack on the Westgate shopping mall in this still frame taken from video footage by security cameras inside the mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Reuters Archive.

This video grab from a security camera shows the moment where armed police break-in to Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela. Reuters Archive.

A still picture from a security camera released by police March 7 shows a man armed with a shotgun leaving the Lefevre Gallery with a million dollar Picasso painting, England. Reuters Archive.

An indigenous man films a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) at an illegal check point near the entrance to Toribio, in the province of Cauca, Colombia. Reuters Archive.

Indian press photographers stand behind a fence for security reasons as they take pictures of Belgium’s Queen Paola in a school in Mumbai, India. Reuters Archive.

Oki Electric Industry showroom worker Naoko Yamamoto registers the variations of her eye’s iris into a computer as she demonstrates the new «Iris Pass-S gate management system», a new security system using the human iris for personal user recognition, in Tokyo, Japan. Reuters Archive.

A mock intruder, tangled in a net that was launched by the remote-controlled security robot T-34, lies on the floor while posing beside the robot during a photo opportunity in Tokyo, Japan. Reuters Archive.