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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.misc,sci.misc,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Telephone privacy gadgets
Message-ID: <978@aoa.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 89 17:41:29 GMT
References: <799@mccall.uucp> <7016@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: carl@aoa (Carl Witthoft)
Organization: Adaptive Optics assoc., Cambridge, Ma
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>In article <799@mccall.uucp> tp@mccall.uucp (Terry Poot) writes:
>}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?
Naaaaah :=)
I just got one of those yupscale catalogs at home.
It has a phone monitor plug-in which will beep if the operator
or someone on an extension phone picks up.  The good part of the
ad said "Warning. THis device will not detect the ultrsophisticated
devices used by the CIA and KGB. If you are being monitored by one
of these groups, you need a lot more help than this [gadget]
can give you."
well, true...


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