From: azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 22:53:13 -0800 (PST)
To: michael.tighe@Central.Sun.COM (Michael Tighe SUN IMP)
Subject: Re: Newt's phone calls
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>Bill Stewart writes:
>
>>Tapping cellphones is more trouble than tapping wired phones -
>>they move around, and to tap them from the phone company end
>>requires taps everywhere that you activate when you know where
>>somebody is.
>
>Exactly. So how come mom&pop with a scanner were able to record BOTH sides
>of the conversation without interruption? This seems pretty suspicious to
>me. I think Old Newt was targeted by someone inside the phone company, who
>was eavesdropping on all of his cell calls.

Both sides of a conversation are audible on a single channel due to its use
for sidetone.


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