You can tell your phone is tapped when you hear a snicker in the background when you are being all mushy with your significant other.

This isn't the 1980s. It's not Miami Vice, with Switek sitting in a van with headphones on, with a cable patched directly into the phone network. Phone bugs are installed at the exchanges, and are purely digital in operation. That means you won't be able to tell you are being bugged, as they don't affect the call in the slightest. It used to be that when you were being bugged, someone had a phone on your actual line, and was simply listening as one can do on a second handset on the same line in your own home, only the tappers didn't have microphones on their handsets, but the physical act of tapping the line meant call degradation, and interference.

Now, you simply won't know. It's impossible to tell.

Watch or listen to Democracy Now's interview with James Bamford (10-14-2008) and hear it explained in detail.

Basically it's all tapped, all the time and being recorded. It's just a matter of whether anyone ever bothers to listen to your call. There's no privacy in any electronic communications unless you are using encryption. You would never know you're being recorded, because you're always being recorded.

The clicking and echo and other such noises are usually just some faulty equipment between you and the person you're talking to. The recording is done in core of the telephone company and is impossible to detect with your ear to the phone. Of course, your neighbors could tap your phone almost as easily (and detectably) as hopping on your wi-fi internet connection.

Bottom line is... when it comes to phones: there is no privacy, just the illusion of privacy.

Someone once told me that nowadays they can listen to ur phone even if its not in a convo. And that as long as it has the batery in it they can listen to whatever is goin on around the phone...i didn't really believe..but ehh with all this technology nowadays it wouldnt surprise me lol

hey. i used to be a telephone/intenet engineer, and i must confirm that if u do here a clicking noise and a slight echo on you phone then ur a most definate being tapped, ive tried this on my phone line a few times and i tapped my ex-girl friends phone from the cab/mux i used to work for the NTL phone company witch id now virgin media, i used to do this everyday, when i was looking for a free phone space in the cab i used to listen to other peoples calls and when i did this people used to say did u here that clicking noise, me and my m8 used to have gud fun with this on our but phone we used to thro a few words in there to # em up. but yea its the clicking noise. click click

every electronic device is monitored...
especially CellPhones... walking bugs ....

If you start a Militia in your Area.... make sure no electronic devices are present at meeting...

remember, sooner or later the Towns and Counties are going to have to cut cost's... and Public protection is where I see them cutting... so, basically, there will be Militias (Neighborhood Security Forces)

[edit on 13-11-2008 by BornPatriot]

Phone systems 101


Ok in these modern times of digital routers, digital muxes and digital transmission, phone calls are no longer carried over the old twisted pair wires. This means that it is no longer required to directly connect to, or even inductively connect to a phone conversation.

A 1 is a 1 no matter how many times it is duplicated, and a zero is a zero no matter how many times it is duplicated...thus in effect, that 1 and 0 are the same, regardless of who gets the 1 and 0 in the end.

Hearing "clicks" on your phone does not mean your being tapped. There is only a fraction of twisted pair wire used between your telephone and the mux outisde your house in the alley way. From there it is digital. Now if you see the phone company guy out there during these "clicks" and "pops" when on the phone, it could be the phone guy is fixing the mux outside your house for someone else, or perhaps enabling service for someone else.

Also, dispite the fact that the twisted pair of wires are in such a short length between the phone and the mux out in the alley, they are still suspect to EMF discharge, which in other words, produces "clicks" and "pops" on the line.


With a majority of people using cordless phones, and cell phones these days, all they have to do to listen to your phone call is to simply "tune" into the frequency you are using, thus does not produce any "clicks" or "pops".

In other words, you will NEVER know if your call is being monitored. EVER.

It is MORE likely you are hearing simple interference, perhaps from someone's engine with faulty spark plug wires, or someone using an arc welder down the street or on the next block, or perhaps some enthusiastic ham operator playing around with their CW transmitter, or someone playing around with high voltage experiments.

Food for thought.


Cheers!!!!

Don't pay your cell phone bill, after sometime its not cut off its a good indicator that someone has placed a flag on your account and possibly listening.