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Tip on Telephone Privacy I
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Written By: TESLA
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Your home style single line telephone can easily become a "Hot Mike"
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in the hands of a skilled technician. Hot Mikes are capable of picking up
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conversations in the area while the handset is still in the cradle,
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(Still on the hook) without affecting normal operation of the phone.
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Unless you (or a friend) is a trained electronics or telephone
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technician, it is doubtful that you will notice any modifications made
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to your phone even if it has been turned into a Hot Mike Set, because
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nothing is added to the phone,and nothing is removed.
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The modification simply requires the technician to change the position
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of two wires inside the phone,taking only seconds from start to finish.
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Some phones come with this modification already made, allowing phones to
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be monitored at the nearest punch-down junction (phone box) without the
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worry of having to enter the home.
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The simplest way to defeat an attempt to Hot Mike your home or office
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is to dissconnect the Black and Yellow Wires where your phone plugs
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into the wall.
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Some of the newly installed phone lines use white wires with blue
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tracers and white wires with orange tracers. In these cases, remove
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both orange-white wires from the mounting block.
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Whether you have a modular (Plug in) or hard wired telephone,touch
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tone or rotary, the process is the same.
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NOTE: Disconnecting these wires on a multi-line phone may disconnect
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one of your numbers, so use this method only with single line sets.
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CAUTION: Remove the handset from the cradle (Take phone off hook)
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before touching any wires. Ring voltages on the ring and tip
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(red/green or blue/white) wires can be excessive if someone tries
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to call while your working.
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