Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: NETWRK@harvarda.harvard.edu (Steve Thornton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Cordless Eavesdropping Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 91 05:54:06 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 38 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 139, Message 1 of 12 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu There's an interesting ad in the March 1991 {Spy Magazine}, p. 72. It says: EAVESDROP!! on any CORDLESS PHONE! LISTEN TO: Family, Friends, Neighbors, Enemies, Employees, Businesses, ANYONE! (Used by Law Enforcement & P.I.'s). Intercepts Cordless Phone Airwaves! No Messy Wiring or Obvious Phone Connections! Listen Live or Record From ANYWHERE! * Cordless Phone Eavesdropping & Surveillance Techniques MANUAL...$15.00 * Cordless Phone Listening Device + FREE MANUAL Reg. $235.......NOW $175 * Optional Mini Voice Activated Recorder (For Unattended Monitoring).............$60.00 Send Name, Address, & Payment to: Sophisticated Surveillance 230 N. Michigan Avenue 11th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60601 Phone (312) 461-9676 * LONGRANGE RECEPTION * HI-TECH * HAND-HELD * PORTABLE * EASY TO USE * EASY TO CONCEAL ----------- And you thought your local COCOT was a sleazy operator. I suppose this is marginally legal in at least some of the proposed applications (employees!?!) but, criminy, this is amazing. Anyone wanna place a bet on how many pages in the "manual"? I'm guessing this is an unsuccessful private investigator trying to branch out. steve thornton / harvard university library / 617.495.3724 netwrk@harvarda.bitnet / netwrk@harvarda.harvard.edu