A lot of times you might hear an echo in the phone, or here somebody clicking the phone over.

That echo being your own voice, being replayed, sometimes on a cell phone you might pick up somebodies elses reception and be picking up somebody elses conversation, also a possibility.

[edit on 10-7-2008 by menguard]

How can you tell your phone is tapped? If you have a phone IT IS TAPPED.

Very seriously people, the NSA, Echelon and AT&T can most likely capture 70%+ of the _worlds_ traffic and 100% of USA traffic. If the NSA wants to know what you said on Jan 17th 2008 @ 17:42 in a call to your pals I'm fairly sure they can simply queue that file up.

"No way!" you might say. Ask yourself, what do you REALLY know on the subject? What do you REALLY know about technology? It's already common knowledge that with merely the use of one room in an AT&T building 'they' were able to capture massive amounts of data.

So just think of all the neat things they do with those billions of dollars in the ''black budget''.

Ask yourself, which is easier :

1. wait to suspect someone THEN tap them and hope you get the info in time
2. tap everyone and access the records at will

Of course local law enforcement and etc have to do things a bit different - they most likely aren't aware such systems exists however I have little doubt that big brother is ALWAYS listening.

Once states go all 'dictator' they tend to really REALLY like to know what _everyone_ is doing.

It's worth noting that regular consumers can buy memory chips the size of finger nails which hold multiple gigabytes of data at the local electronics store for no more than $25 dollars. So dare to dream what type of storage capacity the NSA is running.

Simply storing every phone call as a low quality mp3 wouldn't even be that hard - a few geeks and enough hardware could figure it out in short order.

I have several 30minute mp3s which don't exceed 5mb. And this is LOW END CONSUMER technology.


ps. you have no way of knowing if you're being ACTIVELY tapped. the ''echo'' has nothing to do with it. do people really think the fbi/cia/nsa is that amateurish that they would allow an echo feedback on taps? not a chance.

[edit on 14-8-2008 by LoveKnowledge]

A friend of mine was driving a truck last year when an oncoming car lost control and collided head on with him. Fortunately he was going down a hill so was going slow, and no one was hurt. Anyway, the driver of the car had had a few drinks and did a "Ben Cousins" (ran away).
When the police attended the scene, they punched in his rego and found out who he was. Within a matter of minutes, the police told my friend, "well, he called his wife immediately after the accident, and sounded out of breath"...

And that's just the state police...

If you were on a 'list' you would NEVER know that your phone was tapped.

They would tap it at the fiber link in the telco operations center and it would all be done by intercepting/duplicating your one's and zero's.

There is no need to do it at a house level anymore unless it is your nosy neighbors.

You should be more afraid your neighbors are stealing your wifi

M

Originally posted by masawa
If you were on a 'list' you would NEVER know that your phone was tapped.

They would tap it at the fiber link in the telco operations center and it would all be done by intercepting/duplicating your one's and zero's.

You re the voice of reason.

In the good old daze of hard wire and mechanical switches, induction coils were placed on the lines and current bled off for the tap. You never heard clicks or dial tones, or anything from the tapping agency.

Just as Masawa has stated with fiber, its very simple now and you use a splitter switch. Your message continues on, and also goes to where the tap wants it to go which can be a Narus box for storage.

I've been hearing some strange clicks on my phone recently. I know this sounds very old-fashioned compared to the technology of today, etc., but it sounds like when someone picks up on another line in your house, except I know that no one is picking up in the house. Does anyone know what it could be? I don't think this is the feds or anything, I'm asking because for a while, there was this weird doctor that was following me around. Lately, I've been getting some very strange calls. I looked up the address of where the calls are coming from, and the calls are from a store that is very near his office. So, how could an amateur be listening to your phone conversations? Sorry, this is just creeping me out!

I don't want to come off sounding snide, but here's the rub. Your phone conversations are not tapped. They are intercepted. All of them.

More simply, How can you tell if your conversation is potentially being listened to?.... does your phone work? If it does then your on the grid.

All digital telecommunications are routed through systems that provide total access to the federales. It's been that way for decades.

Any remaining analog or radio based phone signals are simply collected along with everything else.

"tapping" phones is now something only private detectives and corporate spies do.

The real questions is are you saying anything that might cause a computer program looking for linguistic algorithms to consider it a candidate for focused observation?

Originally posted by Maxmars
I don't want to come off sounding snide, but here's the rub. Your phone conversations are not tapped. They are intercepted. All of them.

More simply, How can you tell if your conversation is potentially being listened to?.... does your phone work? If it does then your on the grid.

All digital telecommunications are routed through systems that provide total access to the federales. It's been that way for decades.

Any remaining analog or radio based phone signals are simply collected along with everything else.

"tapping" phones is now something only private detectives and corporate spies do.

The real questions is are you saying anything that might cause a computer program looking for linguistic algorithms to consider it a candidate for focused observation?

good observation,all they have to do as you say is intercept the digitised sonic information with travels through the network.

thats the draw back of digitalised communication ,its so easy to intercept.i tihnk were better of going back to analogue!

hey how about we get everyone to start talking in code and all suspicious in every phonecall they make ,that would be highly amusing!!,why not apply that to all forms of communication!!,goodbye echelon!

i got the idea from a woman who was an enemy of the aparthied government in south africa,she discovered she was being bugged thus all she did was talk in code about everything

[edit on 19-9-2008 by welivefortheson]