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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Mar 10 2008 :  10:12:37 AM  Show Profile  Visit Aaron Cake's Homepage  Send Aaron Cake an ICQ Message  Send Aaron Cake a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
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Originally posted by bsecurity

icyl,
You said that people know things that are only said over the phone. There is a type of phone tap that actually uses the phone receiver as a microphone.


You mean there are phone taps that don't? How else would the audio be available other then using the microphone in the phone handset?

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If you are concerned that your email has been compromised you might want to ditch the free email services and go for an email service that logs all access to their servers. This way you can check the access logs to see what days/times and IP numbers have been used to access your email.


Most ISPs will not give you records as to how and when your account has been accessed. There may be web based mail services that do this but if the machine is compromised then it's not going to help.

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You might consider doing all web browsing and email using a linux live CD. This way viruses and key loggers can't be installed on the operating system.


That's not true. There is nothing about a live CD that prevents viruses/keyloggers/whatever from being run. It is highly unlikely that such a thing will happen, but it's not impossible.

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If you are concerned about keeping your IP number masked you might give something like the Incongnito Live CD a try.
http://anonymityanywhere.com/incognito/


You can't "mask" an IP address. TOR will only prevent the other end from seeing your true IP, which won't help in this case.
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bsecurity
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Posted - Mar 11 2008 :  06:34:08 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Aaron,

Thanks for your comments to my posting.

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You mean there are phone taps that don't? How else would the audio be available other then using the microphone in the phone handset?


Fair enough. I used to be under the impression that a tapped phone had to be picked up and spoken directly into before they could hear a voice on the other line. But, apparently, this is not the case. With the phone on the hook conversations are still heard.
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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Mar 15 2008 :  10:31:44 AM  Show Profile  Visit Aaron Cake's Homepage  Send Aaron Cake an ICQ Message  Send Aaron Cake a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Ah, I thought you were referring to listening while the phone was in use, not on hook.
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