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Re: [OM] OT: Telephone Spying Again

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Telephone Spying Again
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 18:25:29 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     Thank you.  I will definitely look into that at the first opportunity.


>
>   I installed a free product about 2 years ago to solve my telemarketer 
>problem.  It is Free (for a landline).  I requires that you be 
>affiliated with supported telephone providers.
>
>    I subscribe to Verizon, which it supports.  I seems to eliminate 
>about +95% of unwanted calls.  The real test was that I received NO 
>political calls.  You set up your account to call-forwarding to their 
>phone number where it is compared to their database and if there is no 
>match then it is returned back to your phone.  It works and it is free.  
>If it supports your system, then you are in luck.
>
>https://www.nomorobo.com/
>
>Rand E
>
>
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>On 12/29/2016 7:01 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
>>       My odd problem with telemarketers calling immediately after making a 
>> loud noise hasn't happened much, until these past few days.  Early this 
>> afternoon I came home after a long drive.  I closed the front door firmly, 
>> and in less than a minute the phone rang with a telemarketer on the other 
>> end.
>>
>>       Earlier this year I looked extensively online for any information 
>> about this, and I learned that many of our electronic phones, such as 
>> cordless, leave the microphone alive when the phone is not in use, what's 
>> known as "live mike" or "hot mike".  I'm not certain if this is true for all 
>> such phones, but it appears to be true for my AT&T cordless phone set.
>>
>>       I'll have to look into my older textbooks on telephony and see how our 
>> mechanical telephones disconnected the earpiece and microphone when the 
>> handset is in the cradle.
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>>       - Hunter S. Thompson
>
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Chris

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