in the past several months we have had several phone technicians come to evaluate and repair our phone and internet modems because we were having trouble. after the second time, we no longer had trouble, but the cable/phone/internet company was supposedly having inexperienced techs installing the wires incorrectly and had subcontractor techs going around correcting the errors. i'm leary of why they would come to fix something that i wasn't having trouble with. i got suspicious when three of the techs said that the other had the lines connected wrong. i'm wondering if our phones could be tapped because my boyfriends ex is a very messy person and she would do anything to f--- up his life. i wouldn't put it past her to hire someone to do it.
2007-10-10 00:48:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Land Phones
If you wonder....then they are probably tapped.
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2007-10-10 00:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no way. Even the telephone employees don't know. Bell has a special security team that place in the taps in the Central Offices and nobody asks questions. The police need a court order to get a tap. You can't hear them, there's no clicks or whispers. Taps are rarer than most people think, for every hundred thousand lines in a city there might be one tap at any time.
2016-05-20 22:35:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're being paranoid.
Tapping a phone line is not easy, and if done without a warrant and court order, is a federal crime.
Where would a crazy ex-girlfriend come up with the money and resources to get this done? Plus, she'd either have to have a lot of technical expertise regarding phone equipment or a connection inside the phone company....
Especially if your phone is provided through a cable/Internet company, your signal isn't just going down the line as electronic vibrations. Its a super fast stream of ones and zeros sent as packet data and encrypted. Not an easy thing to intercept.
2007-10-10 01:04:37 · answer #3 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
With current technology there is no possible way that you would know if your landline or mobile is tapped. It occurs with the carrier eg. Optus, Vodaphone etc. All extra noises you may hear are related to faults/static etc.
2007-10-12 17:36:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
With modern tapping equipment, there is absolutely no way to tell. Anyone working on exterior wiring should present suitable credentials on request; always check for them if you have any doubt.
2007-10-10 04:33:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What if he has a business ISDN line?
These instruments look like they are only for analogue lines.
2007-10-10 02:10:16 · answer #6 · answered by andyl999 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all phones are tapped
look at echelon
http://hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html
2007-10-10 00:53:34 · answer #7 · answered by virgil 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋