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Phone Taps
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Phone Taps by The Jolly Roger
Here is some info on phone taps. In this file is a schematic for
a simple wiretap & instructions for hooking up a small tape
recorder control relay to the phone line.
First, I will discuss taps a little. There are many different
types of taps. there are transmitters, wired taps, and induction
taps to name a few. Wired and wireless transmitters must be
physically connected to the line before they will do any good.
Once a wireless tap is connected to the line,it can transmit all
conversations over a limited reception range. The phones in the
house can even be modifies to pick up conversations in the room
and transmit them too! These taps are usually powered off of the
phone line, but can have an external power source. You can get
more information on these taps by getting an issue of Popular
Communications and reading through the ads. Wired taps, on the
other hand, need no power source, but a wire must be run from the
line to the listener or to a transmitter. There are obvious
advantages of wireless taps over wired ones. There is one type of
wireless tap that looks like a normal telephone mike. All you
have to do is replace the original mike with this and it will
transmit all conversations! There is also an exotic type of wired
tap known as the 'Infinity Transmitter' or 'Harmonica Bug'. In
order to hook one of these, it must be installed inside the
phone. When someone calls the tapped phone & *before* it
rings,blows a whistle over the line, the transmitter picks up the
phone via a relay. The mike on the phone is activated so that the
caller can hear all of the conversations in the room. There is a
sweep tone test at 415/BUG-1111 which can be used to detect one
of these taps. If one of these is on your line & the test # sends
the correct tone, you will hear a click. Induction taps have one
big advantage over taps that must be physically wired to the
phone. They do not have to be touching the phone in order to pick
up the conversation. They work on the same principle as the
little suction-cup tape recorder mikes that you can get at Radio
Shack. Induction mikes can be hooked up to a transmitter or be
wired.
Here is an example of industrial espionage using the phone: A
salesman walks into an office & makes a phone call. He fakes the
conversation, but when he hangs up he slips some foam rubber
cubes into the cradle. The called party can still hear all
conversations in the room. When someone picks up the phone, the
cubes fall away unnoticed.
A tap can also be used on a phone to overhear what your modem is
doing when you are wardialing, hacking, or just plain calling a
bbs (like the White Ruins! Denver, Colorado! 55 megs online!
Atari! Macintosh! Amiga! Ibm! CALL IT! 303-972-8566! By the way,
i did this ad without the sysops consent or knowledge!).
Here is the schematic:
-------)!----)!(------------->
)!(
Cap ^ )!(
)!(
)!(
)!(
^^^^^---)!(------------->
^ 100K
!
!
The 100K pot is used for volume. It should be on its highest
(least resistance) setting if you hook a speaker across the
output. but it should be set on its highest resistance for a tape
recorder or amplifier. You may find it necessary to add another
10 - 40K. The capacitor should be around .47 MFD. It's only
purpose is to prevent the relay in the phone from tripping &
thinking that you have the phone off of the hook. the audio
output transformer is available at Radio Shack. (part # 273-138E
for input). The red & the white wires go to the output device.
You may want to experiment with the transformer for the best
output. Hooking up a tape recorder relay is easy. Just hook one
of the phone wires (usually red) to the the end of one of the
relay & the ther end just loop around. This bypasses it. It
should look like this:
------^^^^^^^^^------------
---------
RELAY^^
(part #275-004 from Radio Shack works fine)
If you think that you line is tapped, the first thing to do is to
physically inspect the line yourself ESPECIALLY the phones. You
can get mike replacements with bug detectors built in. However, I
would not trust them too much. It is too easy to get a wrong
reading.
For more info:
BUGS AND ELECTRONIC SURVEILANCE from Desert Publications HOW TO
AVOID ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING & PRIVACY INVASION. I do not
remember who this one is from... you might want to try Paladin
Press.
-Jolly Roger-
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