Wire tapping
Posted on 03/04/2017 10:17:39 AM PST by MNDude
I am curious if anyone knows from a technical point how wiretapping works. Does someone need to implement some equipment on phones like hidden microphones? Or does somebody just flip a switch from the spook room?
Isn’t that what they call Morse Code???
They don’t even have to bug your room, they can do it if they can get proximity to your phone even if it is a land line.
RF and laser interferometers on windows for example
NSA.
Wire tapping
Phone calls have long been frequency filtered, digitized and multiplexed on lines, now mostly send over networks that can be easily ported to NSA. Edward Snowden could do it from Russia with the right S/W and right network authorizations.
They can flip a switch from the spook room to monitor central switches, however that requires subsequent processing by “big data” software to ferret out the traffic in question.
To avoid that processing they can be more direct by placing equipment closer to the source.
Anything transmitted outside the building any appreciable distance, like a cell phone call, is already slurped up by the NSA due to their signals intelligence function. Requires same data processing.
Ok but for Trump Tower, which presumably would have some serious level of technical protections against spying by commercial rivals, journalists, etc., what is involved in “wiretapping” Trump and others there?
Do the feds do it through the major telecom companies at the level of switches for the whole city etc.? I assume that Trump would have a high level of protection against anyone getting unauthorized access to the telecom equipment in the building....
If the transmission is by wire, then the wire has side lobes which can be picked up. If it is wireless, then its an open electronic transmission which can be picked up be a host of devises including satellites - not necessarily of US manufacture. If the signal is dumped as in the case of Russian troposphere land line transmissions, then an antenna anywhere in the dump circle will pick it up.
Most telcom is VoIP nowadays. All you need is to seek out specific node addresses for the phones you want to tap on a LAN, and viola! Every action recorded with crystal clarity.
Of course, having the entire NSA at your disposal doesn’t hurt either.
All phones in a business like that are IP based so hacking would be a better description.
Listening through the windows over a laser. Trump not having a Secure Compartment in his office would not know. Which means now he does know because the good guys have told him. Never occurred to the mack daddy from kenya who is too smart for his coked out a@@.
Stingray fake cell sites -- have become quite affordable
Measuring sound waves on glass windows
Packet sniffing wifi networks
Packet sniffing wide area networks - FBI "Carnivore"
Tapping undersea optical cables in the optical domain
Good old fashioned wireless microphone bugs in the room
And apparently did do that in Hawaii working for a freaking contractor, on overtime. Has happened before (Falcon and Snowman, for example- and always, always for a “greater righteous, self-ascribed morality”)
Lots of ways, from clipleads to software, impossible to know which. In some cases, it can be done without a court order with authorization by...(drum roll please...) the Attorney General.
New York state only requires one party approval.
Remotely. The phone company sends all digital traffic from the desired phone line(s) to the facility that does the listening.
They can bug anyplace where illegal activity is suspected. The interesting thing in this case is that the first application for a warrant was rejected by the judge. The second application was approved. The applicant must have some type of evidence that crimes are being committed. If the applicant lied about the suspected illegal activity in order to get the warrant, could place him (the applicant ) in serious trouble, especially if they found nothing.
Sure would be nice if back during the campaign Trump laid a trap by videotaping himself or a top aide reading from a bogus script written to attract the spooks’ attention.
Maybe they did...
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