Or you can just dispense with the phone line altogether. We have fiber for our
internet, and only use our cellphones and Skype for actual phone calls. We do
actually still have a traditional landline, a leftover from the DSL days, but I
do not even remember the phone number that goes with it.
Cheers,
Nathan
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> On 30 Jul 2015, at 20:00, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Well, it happened again. Came home, closed the door, telephone rings,
> telemarketer.
>
> So, I did a wider online search using words other than "snooping" and
> came up with countless hits if I used "easvesdropping". The equipment for
> doing this is commercially available, and there's even a textbook on the
> subject available from Amazon.
>
> From what I can gather, you cannot do this with a conventional phone that
> has an electromechanical ringer, but you can if it has a piezoelectric
> ringer, actually listening by way of the ringer. Another technique is to
> listen by way of the earpiece.
>
> Now that I have a bit of a handle on the language of this nonsense,
> perhaps I can find a solution, such as disconnecting the piezoelectric ringer
> on my wired landline phone.
>
> No more Mr. Niceguy.
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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