Phone Taps

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 thisand itwill 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
!
! <Input

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.

-RFLAGG-



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