Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!emory!stiatl!john From: john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Electronic sweeping and debugging equiptments Message-ID: <6660@stiatl.UUCP> Date: 27 Aug 89 06:33:06 GMT References: Reply-To: john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Procedure IS the product" Lines: 26 In article yj1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (y) writes: > >Do you know any equiptment that can check whether the phone lines are >monitored or the rooms are bugged? Do you know any anti-spy techniques >in general? > This CANNOT be done with sufficient reliability to bet your life on. Especially when the adversary is the government that has control of the switching equipment. Some equipment will detect direct-connect bugs. Most will not detect inductive or capacitive coupled taps. And none will detect taps initiated at the CO. Even scrambling won't work in that environment. The existance of a scrambled signal would be more than enough excuse for arrest. Your friends wll have to learn the same lessons learned by dissitants elsewhere. There IS NO secure electronic communications available in an environmnet where the govenment is not bound to what we consder legal behavior. John -- John De Armond, WD4OQC | Manual? ... What manual ?!? Sales Technologies, Inc. Atlanta, GA | This is Unix, My son, You ...!gatech!stiatl!john **I am the NRA** | just GOTTA Know!!!