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>What type of phone are you using, Chris?
>
My primary landline phone is a traditional type (19th century
bidirectional twisted pair plus ground with no electronics), plus I have a set
of AT&T cordless phones.
I also have a solid brass Western Electric commemorative candlestick phone
that I use occasionally for fun. I still have the impulse dialing option so I
can dial numbers by toggling the earpiece hook.
Chris the Paranoid
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>On 7/21/2015 10:02 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
>> I brought this subject up some time ago, and I hadn't given it any
>> further thought until just this week. The issue is the suspicion that
>> telemerketers are using some method where they can listen to your telephone
>> even when it is hung up. I was reminded of this while watching a movie "The
>> Conversation" where a surveillance expert demonstrates a device for doing
>> just that.
>>
>> About a week ago, I came home and closed the front door firmly,
>> immediately after which the telephone rang with a telemarketer on the other
>> end. A couple of days later I was sorting out some bicycle parts near the
>> phone, and immediately after I dropped a part into a can, making a loud
>> noise, the telephone rang with a telemarketer at the other end.
>>
>> I'm a firm believer in Gibbs Rule #39, which says that there is no
>> such thing as a coincidence. I've had too many instances where the
>> telephone rings immediately after maing a loud noise, such as closing a door
>> or making some other form of loud noise. This practice of eavesdropping on
>> your phone while it is hung up to detect if someone is home has got to be
>> grossly illegal.
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>> - Hunter S. Thompson
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