how do you know if your phone is tapped?

1. if you are selling colombian produce

With the way that phones work now they don't have to install some kind of analog monitoring device that would show signs. They have special servers installed at all of the switching stations if you will. They can mirror the audio with no symptom that you can tell. It is all very automated now.

The jist is that they are now monitoring ALL communications, feeding it into an automated system that tries to observe relationships that may mean terrorist activity.

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As an aside, all US phone billing is now performed by Amdocs. An Israeli company that feeds all phone transaction records to Israeli intel. Not so much the content of the calls here, but Israel gets a list of who everybody called and how long the call was for, etc.

Anything said over a wireless device does not even need a warrant, that is considered public airwaves.

One easy step to find out if it is tapped is to click the power button. If it turns on than you are being tracked hahaha

consider you phone tapped at all times, if your conversation is sensitive.

It's wet and sticky?

a weird click sound at the start of the phone call

This is the correct answer if it is the Government tapping your phone. If it is a friend or regular person then it could be tapped by the old method of installing a physical device.

The mere fact that you have an operational phone means IT IS TAPPED. This was evident at the ten year anniversary of 911, when all these cell calls were played on TV. Someone, somewhere, has been grabbing every call of every nature for a long, long time. My pop used to work for a big phone company as an electrical engineer in the 1970's. He told us that he could, at a switching station, listen to people in their homes even though the phone was hung up. He said that though the phone is hung up, there is no break in the line and it is wide open to those who want to listen to your conversations. Cell phones are no different. They have two batteries - one you can remove and one you can't remove (without difficulty). When you pull out the main battery, it is still powered by a little battery and even when it is technically "off", it's really on.

they don't need to tap them anymore.

all phones are tapped

because it works....

Landlines (house phone) basically have a shallow clicking sound, and you need to listen carefully. Cell phones has the location chip-etc., along with all other newer home technology. What can ya do? Pat yourself on the back for noticing and live...

thats crazy, i never knew that..i assume this could be good for certain occasions to get someone out of trouble perhaps..technology never seems to amaze me..and to the "physical device" comment, since most of the talking is now done on cellphones, i doubt connecting something to someones phone would be sneaky lol its all digital i assume...other methods of monitoring that are pretty neat in my opinion are android apps like sms tracker...it tracks all messages sent and received and with premium membership it also tracks all calls made and received as well as all web pages browsed through the browser..pretty cool huh>? good way to keep your kids in check and out of trouble

There is usually a silver sort of pipe on it somewhere that if turned will leak water...

uhhhhh....when it's water breaks and it gives birth to little tiny phones?

time to learn to speak in language that they can not monitor or understand...

IF you have a phone.....then it IS tapped....period

Usually it's right around the same time the black helicopters start following you everywhere. Watch out for the mind control lasers.