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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Telephone Snooping
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:23:08 -0500
I have fiber optics to the house, so our hookups are quite different. I get the usual "You have been chosen for a free vacation................." call almost every morning. I also get the "fishing" calls from scammers posing as Microsoft tech support, who want to help me with a problem. Others are just automated "scatter gun" calls, where no caller is present when I answer. But I have not noted any connection to activities in the home.

I also use, among others, an ancient Western Electric deskset with 12 pushbuttons, because it has an amplified handset that allows me to compensate for hearing loss. It still works fine, even over the fiber system.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 7/21/2015 11:05 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
What type of phone are you using, Chris?

      My primary landline phone is a traditional type (19th century bidirectional 
twisted pair plus ground with no electronics), plus I have a set of AT&T 
cordless phones.

      I also have a solid brass Western Electric commemorative candlestick 
phone that I use occasionally for fun.  I still have the impulse dialing option 
so I can dial numbers by toggling the earpiece hook.

Chris the Paranoid

On 7/21/2015 10:02 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
       I brought this subject up some time ago, and I hadn't given it any further thought 
until just this week.  The issue is the suspicion that telemerketers are using some 
method where they can listen to your telephone even when it is hung up.  I was reminded 
of this while watching a movie "The Conversation" where a surveillance expert 
demonstrates a device for doing just that.

       About a week ago, I came home and closed the front door firmly, 
immediately after which the telephone rang with a telemarketer on the other 
end.  A couple of days later I was sorting out some bicycle parts near the 
phone, and immediately after I dropped a part into a can, making a loud noise, 
the telephone rang with a telemarketer at the other end.

       I'm a firm believer in Gibbs Rule #39, which says that there is no such 
thing as a coincidence.  I've had too many instances where the telephone rings 
immediately after maing a loud noise, such as closing a door or making some 
other form of loud noise.  This practice of eavesdropping on your phone while 
it is hung up to detect if someone is home has got to be grossly illegal.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
       - Hunter S. Thompson
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