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Old 05-24-2005, 05:16 AM
jimski
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Originally Posted by TMann
For better or worse, this software sounds like it could be used for ANY sort of voice surveillance...you could hide the phone in a room and whenever someone started talking the phone would call you and allow you to listen in on the conversation. Not that I suppose that anyone would use a $600 Pocket PC phone just to listen in on conversations...

TMann
Not unless the conversation was between your wife and the milkman in your bedroom 8O . Actually I thought this was illegal. Back 25 years ago my cousin showed me a device that simply clipped onto your phone line (about 5 times the size of a PPC) and tucked under a piece of furniture furniture. Dial into the number and without ringing it would open a microphone. You could listen in as long as you liked. At the time I believe you needed a license to purchase it though.
 
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