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dracae · Post by **dracae** » 21 Sep 2007, 13:13

These things might have been true in the past, but now when all switchboards and the corresponding infrastructure is digital, you will not be able to tell if your phone is being tapped or not. The days where you needed to physically hook up another line to tap a phone are over.

LoRee · Post by **LoRee** » 21 Sep 2007, 18:27

The days where you needed to physically hook up another line to tap a phone are over.

Absolutely. The NSA has a farm of huge satellite dishes some where in the Virginia countryside that regularly monitors 90% of the worlds telephone traffic. It's the few places in the world that still use the old analog type phones which cannot be listened to.

Grinser · Post by **Grinser** » 21 Sep 2007, 21:33

I only use voice over IP for the few calls I make, I don`t even have a phone. Guess, Skype is just as easy if not easier to tap, but the only thing to really spy on would be the few times I call a pizza-to-go service ^^

LoRee · Post by **LoRee** » 23 Sep 2007, 03:08

Grinser wrote:

. . . the only thing to really spy on would be the few times I call a pizza-to-go service . . .

Funny you should mention that, but according to a BBC world service interview, with the head of U S Homeland Security, I heard the other night, it seems that pizza-to-go services (we call them Pizza Delivery Service here in the States) is the #1 type call monitored. It seems pizza is the preferred snack of Jihadie Terrorist world wide. So remember always order PORK on your pizza delivery. I'd much rather be suspected of being an anti-semitic jerk, than a candidate for all expense paid vacation to Guantanamo (or a vegetarian which we all know is far worse than Al-Qaida)