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- Tip on Telephone Privacy I
- Written By: TESLA
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- Your home style single line telephone can easily become a "Hot Mike"
- in the hands of a skilled technician. Hot Mikes are capable of picking up
- conversations in the area while the handset is still in the cradle,
- (Still on the hook) without affecting normal operation of the phone.
- Unless you (or a friend) is a trained electronics or telephone
- technician, it is doubtful that you will notice any modifications made
- to your phone even if it has been turned into a Hot Mike Set, because
- nothing is added to the phone,and nothing is removed.
- The modification simply requires the technician to change the position
- of two wires inside the phone,taking only seconds from start to finish.
- Some phones come with this modification already made, allowing phones to
- be monitored at the nearest punch-down junction (phone box) without the
- worry of having to enter the home.
- The simplest way to defeat an attempt to Hot Mike your home or office
- is to dissconnect the Black and Yellow Wires where your phone plugs
- into the wall.
- Some of the newly installed phone lines use white wires with blue
- tracers and white wires with orange tracers. In these cases, remove
- both orange-white wires from the mounting block.
- Whether you have a modular (Plug in) or hard wired telephone,touch
- tone or rotary, the process is the same.
- NOTE: Disconnecting these wires on a multi-line phone may disconnect
- one of your numbers, so use this method only with single line sets.
- CAUTION: Remove the handset from the cradle (Take phone off hook)
- before touching any wires. Ring voltages on the ring and tip
- (red/green or blue/white) wires can be excessive if someone tries
- to call while your working.
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