How To: Foil Gestapo Wiretaps at Home

Yes the Gestapo or whatever name you want to call them won’t like this:

[url=http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/start.html?pg=4]How To: Foil Wiretaps at Home

Think the Feds might be jacked into your home line? Well, there’s no need to skulk down to the corner pay phone to conduct your business. All you need is a C note. University of Pennsylvania computer science professor Matt Blaze ­dissected the wiretap equipment commonly used by law enforcement and found a few, um, bugs. Spies, it turns out, don’t like to record dead air, so they turn the system off by playing a special C-pitched tone when the target phone is hung up. As a result, anyone with an MP3 player and a recorded C can prevent eavesdroppers from snooping on their private chatter. It doesn’t work with all listening devices, though, so there’s no guarantee the NSA won’t come calling.

  1. You’re starting to get the creepy feeling you’re being watched – or rather listened to.

  2. Download Blaze’s C tone (www.crypto.com/papers/wiretapping) and broadcast it continuously during phone calls. You can play the tone at low volume so it just seems like ambient room noise.

  3. Don’t stop there – befuddle your foes. Play the C for a second in the middle of a call, then without hanging up, dial another number. Analog wiretap systems will interpret this as a new call. You may be chatting with a friend, but now the spooks think you’re talking to Domino’s.
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Pass it on to everyone you know.

Meanwhile the US BORDER IS WIDE OPEN.

When I make my tinfoil hat - Do i have to use Reynolds, or will ALCOA work too?

Isn’t there some sort of internet rule about referring to Nazi Germany ?

You may foil the Gestapo… but no-one escapes the Spanish Inquisition!

Not the comfy chair, please, not the comfy chair.

see? it’s not only ran the man who’s paranoid. i’m in good company.