[Kosh]

would you hear a click in the background?

[Cyker]

Depends.

If some dude was physically attaching something to your circuit, then possibly, but there's millions of things that can cause clicks and chirps on a phoneline, esp. ****ty UK ones like mine (With the recent gale-force winds blowing the lines around on the telephone pole around for instance).

Modern proper taps would be nigh undetectable from your end because most modern exchanges are digital so any taps would be software.

[Kosh]

Well I ask this because my mom called me from a landline (I have a cellphone) and a few minutes after pointing out McCain's similairity to an iguana we both heard a click that didn't sound "normal". If it was a tap I wouldn't be surprised since it was an outgoing international call.

[MP-Ryan]

Well I ask this because my mom called me from a landline (I have a cellphone) and a few minutes after pointing out McCain's similairity to an iguana we both heard a click that didn't sound "normal". If it was a tap I wouldn't be surprised since it was an outgoing international call.

...which wouldn't be wiretapped unless you were under active investigation.  Not to mention, modern wiretapping doesn't actually involve a direct physical connection into the line that would produce a click AFAIK.

Monitoring equipment using heuristics to identify keywords and phrases doesn't operate in the same way a conventional wiretap does.  No click would occur.

Quit being so paranoid and just wave at CARNIVORE already =)

[NGTM-1R]

I don't think they're going to  tap your phone for calling a canidate in iguana.

[Mefustae]

I don't think they're going to  tap your phone for calling a canidate in iguana.

But then, thinking logically, it's easy to see why you might suspect it considering the name of a major political official was mentioned several times during an international call. Drop in a few inadvertent and unrelated red flag words, and you've got yourself a monitored phone call right there.

[Colonol Dekker]

CARNIVORE is a web equivalant i assume ?

[Rictor]

Here's a tip: sleep during the day and stay awake at night. 3:00am is prime door-knocking-down time. Also, keep whatever possessions you may need to take in a hurry stored conveniently in a back-pack.

[Unknown Target]

Oh, yea, and if you're going to do all that, take some ant-paranoia pills while you're at it.

[Polpolion]

Don't forget to booby trap all of the doors with HIV hypodermics.

[Hellstryker]

Don't forget to booby trap all of the doors with HIV hypodermics.

ROFL thats cold...

[Nuclear1]

[BloodEagle]

Don't forget to booby trap all of the doors with HIV hypodermics.

I am so doing that from now on.

[Fearless Leader]

by posting this you have attracted the attention of the "them" to this forum

[Kosh]

Oh, yea, and if you're going to do all that, take some ant-paranoia pills while you're at it.

...which wouldn't be wiretapped unless you were under active investigation.

@UT: So, I guess the illegal surveillence is just a paranoid delusion?

[BlackDove]

Best way is to talk with your mother again and repeat the keywords. See if it happens again.

[Colonol Dekker]

Your mum may be working for the CIA / NSA / KGB / MOD / DOD / MI5 /<rest of world agencies> for all you know

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Seriously I can't believe no one has stated the obvious.  How would they no to tap your phone during the conversion when the key words were said unless it had already been tapped and monitored?

[WMCoolmon]

Well I ask this because my mom called me from a landline (I have a cellphone) and a few minutes after pointing out McCain's similairity to an iguana we both heard a click that didn't sound "normal". If it was a tap I wouldn't be surprised since it was an outgoing international call.

I'd tap that ass






without a warrant.

[MP-Ryan]

Seriously I can't believe no one has stated the obvious.  How would they no to tap your phone during the conversion when the key words were said unless it had already been tapped and monitored?

Actually, I said that =)

At any rate:

1. Modern professional wiretaps don't produce a click on the line (AFAIK, anyway).
2. Keyword monitoring through intercepts (which are not wiretaps) do not require physical connection to the line.

In short, unless some amateur is listening in on his phone line, Kosh is being paranoid.  Kosh, check your basement for creepy individuals with a Vorlon fetish.