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From: dl@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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Subject: Re: Electronic sweeping and debugging equiptments
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Date: 25 Aug 89 22:06:55 GMT
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> Article <CMM.0.88.620075522.yj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu> From: yj1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (y)

# 
# Do you know any equiptment that can check whether the phone lines are
# monitored or the rooms are bugged?  

There is no way, repeat NO WAY, to tell if a line is tapped. 

Rule one: Don't say anything on the phone you are not prepared
to see on the front page of tomorrow's Washington Post.

The only means to conduct a secure conversation is on a secure
(encrypted) telephone. The STU-III is the current standard 
for federal agencies and their cleared contractors. Millions
of your tax dollars went into this {gem, dog}.

Of course the same is true of fax machines.
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