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1997-01-14 - Re: Newt’s phone calls

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From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
To: michael.tighe@Central.Sun.COM (Michael Tighe SUN IMP)
Message Hash: eb0c21c7a96fef33fa5df2cd724301923658e6777eda611f631da099ee63d15c
Message ID: <199701142233.OAA15724@slack.lne.com>
Reply To: <199701142058.OAA05219@jeep.Central.Sun.COM>
UTC Datetime: 1997-01-14 22:36:45 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:36:45 -0800 (PST)

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From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:36:45 -0800 (PST)
To: michael.tighe@Central.Sun.COM (Michael Tighe SUN IMP)
Subject: Re: Newt's phone calls
In-Reply-To: <199701142058.OAA05219@jeep.Central.Sun.COM>
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Michael Tighe SUN IMP writes:
> 
> 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?

If the person with the cell phone doesn't move, then they don't
get handed off to a different cell.  That means that they
stay on the same frquency.  No need to scan channels if they don't switch.

What Bill's saying is that it is difficult to tap the cell phone of
a _particular_ person with just a scanner.  However the people
who taped Newt were just scanning for whatever they could get.  That's easy.

> 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.

Let's not be paranoid.

It was a conference call, and someone other than Newt was the party
with the cell phone (sorry I forgot the guys name, some representative).
Do you think they (whoever 'they' are) were tapping the phones of
everyone that Newt might talk to?

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