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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.misc,sci.misc,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Telephone privacy gadgets
Message-ID: <7016@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 89 22:45:15 GMT
References: <799@mccall.uucp>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
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In article <799@mccall.uucp> tp@mccall.uucp (Terry Poot) writes:
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}There are gadgets one can put on a telephone that purport to tell you if
}the conversation is being recorded. Does anyone know if they work?

Consumer Reports tested a bunch of these some time ago.  None of them
worked as claimed.

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