my phone connection is getting wonky...tapped?

[FirstLight]

Okay, I have been quite active as of late posting anti-govt sentiments, i am a journalism student and a single mom with HUD housing help... I am sure there's a file somewhere...especially since I was a runner for ABC News Wash. Press corps in the 90s (met clinton, loved him)

Every time I talk to my mom (who lives in nevada, not too far from me actually) the connection goes wonky. I have had her say I am fading in & out, and we BOTH heard a clear clicking and whining sound this last conversation. I said, "if the black SUVs come, know I didn't go willingly" we've been joking but now I wonder

on the one hand I think they WANT us all to be scared, so we monitor our own behavior and don't question big brother.

On the other hand i think they are like the keystone cops and couldn't find their ass from a hole in the ground

just for shits and giggles...who here thinks everyone at DU has a file on them?

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Agent Mike is back. nt

[Just Saying]

2. I think if they do

They're wasting their time.

[FirstLight]

6. LMAO that's my point!

like I am a threat to the National security of things? why? because I breastfed?...because I don't vaccinate? because I believe in holistic meds? *GASP*




it's six one way- half dozen the other

either I should be scared they are watching me or I could care less because I matter in NO way

...and IF they were listening so well, how many of the recent tragedies could have been averted? yes, Boston comes to mind...among others...

[Just Saying]

11. Agree

If they tap people for those reasons they're missing the real terrorists.

I'm with you on the keystone cops thing. I'm not sure with the way our gov't handles most thing that they can find their own ass with both hands.

But if they pay attention at Free Republic... Well they might get lucky.

[itsrobert]

3. For a journalism student you leave a lot out

Cell phone or home phone.

What provider?

The reason I ask, if you have Sprint, they are in the middle of a giant upgrade and at times their service may be wonky as they are working on installing the new equipment.

[FirstLight]

7. ...

At&T landline


and my dad worked for those fuckers when they went into fiber-optics

[Poll_Blind]

4. On a modern tap, anytime in last 10+ years, you're not going to hear it at all or know about it.

No chance it's a tap, just a shitty, shitty phone line. If the government or whomever is tapping that line, they're listening into the call thinking "Jesus, what a shitty phone line" too.



PB

[FirstLight]

8. hehe

thanks I needed that !


it's just paranoia...but you see how it works don;t you? we all think we are watched all the time, and eventually we censor ourselves

[hobbit709]

5. If your phone was tapped they'd never give themselves away by having it act up.

If anything it would work than ever before to make sure they didn't miss anything.

[longship]

9. There's no dude sitting there reading our shit here.

DU doesn't rise to that level.

[FirstLight]

10. ...

[Hekate]

12. Agent Mike is our special friend at DU

He was assigned at The Founding.

[silvershadow]

33. Well, duh...who do you think founded it?

[Buzz Clik]

13. Ha ha! I know a group that has pictures and personal data on every DUer...

..stupid enough to post this crap.

Yeah. I have no doubt it exists, and it would be really, really easy to do. If anybody gave a damn.

[FirstLight]

14. woohoo!

so I *am* an 'enemy of the state'


should I put it on my resume?

[hobbit709]

15. I proudly wear my "I am an enemy of the state" button every time I vote

Have done so for 40 years now.

[FirstLight]

18. love it!

I want one!

[Buzz Clik]

21. Cannot say with certainty that you are on the enemies list.

But, yes, it is a resume builder.

[SheilaT]

16. In 1969 and '70 I became convinced

my phone was being tapped because of wonky reception. This is long before cell phones or cordless phones, for you young 'uns out there. Various friends, when I was talking to them from my phone also thought perhaps it was tapped.

Can't even begin to imagine why. I was an airline ticket agent, had almost no social life, didn't plot to overthrow the government or anything like that.

Occasionally I think about doing an FOIA to see what if anything they have on me, but it probably would be quite dull, since I've had a fairly boring life.

[Gravitycollapse]

17. What is this, a shitty bond film? Tapping phone lines won't make a sound.

[October]

19. Well, the post office is spying on us, too

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?pagewanted=all


<Snip>

Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images.

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[Recursion]

20. Taps don't really have artifacts since phones went digital (but see the caveat)

Centralized NSA-style tapping happens after it's packet-switched, so it doesn't leave any artifacts.

Caveat: a physical tap placed by local police (or criminals) could still leave sound artifacts.

[TexasProgresive]

22. We haven't had a request for a police trap in years

I think they go through security who sets it it through software. No physical traps like the old days.

[Recursion]

23. Right, but Barney Fife or the Russian Mob might be using one (nt)

[ohheckyeah]

24. If you are talking about a landline,

the copper wiring is probably going bad. That's what is happening to us. I'm going to give the new mobile connect a try because our phone has been out as much as on this week due to rain.

[FirstLight]

25. thank for the most rational response yet ;)

I am wondering if it is the old house and the wiring...since the internet has been a little weird from time to time too... my dad is retired AT&T, I should have him take a look

[ohheckyeah]

26. You're welcome.

Our phone has been crackling, popping, dropping calls, and sometimes we don't have a dial tone. Verizon finally admitted it was the copper wiring and they could no longer guarantee our service via landline.

[RILib]

27. Verizon lies

Verizon is trying to get rid of copper, to save money. They would love to convince their copper customers to change to FIOS.

[ohheckyeah]

34. They don't offer FIOS where I am.

They are pushing rural areas to go with the Wireless Home Connect.

[mahina]

29. Ours too

Also old house, cackles and pops like

crazy.

My old organizing prof said, in momvements, beware paranoid people. No offense intended to the OP. Op, fear not.

[SidDithers]

28. I think it means that there's a coup in Mexico...nt

Sid

[KharmaTrain]

30. My Ego Says...

...who gives a shit about who I talk to or what I do. I'm nothing...just one of 300 plus million dealing with making it through another day. If Office Mike is listening in or reading my mail, I pity him. Also, if he does, could he ferret out all the junk mail...

[Agschmid]

31. No.

You are not that important. Get over it.

[southernyankeebelle]

32. Am sure they have files on everybody and when we step out of line they will use the

information to shut us up.