Telephone Tapping and Bugging

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Any telephone, be it mobile or land line, is not a secure means of communication.

We frequently see mobile telephones left on in sensitive offices.

The telephone line is vulnerable to attack at any point along its route between the handset on the desk and the telephone exchange. It can be attacked at any point along its route wherever access can be achieved.

Tapping may occur here,

here,

or here….

These two sites, in common, with many others are in the public domain. This means that anyone can access them and by definition tap the telephones that the connected to the cables.

Telephone tapping is carried out in a variety of ways.

		Simply listening in on an extension
		Tape recorder connected to an extension
		Tape recorder connected to a telephone line
		Radio Frequency bug connected to a telephone line

A simple and cheap telephone/recorder interface unit. This unit simply plugs into an extension and records all telephone activity.

Speakerphones pose a particular threat. The built in microphones can be activated to pick up the audio within a room or conference room even when the phone is not in use.

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