Learn all about the invasive new surveillance technology and gadgets and what you can do to defeat them. Plus, find out just how far the government has gone to compromise your privacy and what you should be doing to fight back. Get the scoop on cellular and mobile phones, faxes, e-mail and much more.
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M.L. Shannon's lifelong interest in communications led him to work as a technician for a company that made surveillance and countermeasures gear as well as for a professional countermeasures company. He is well versed on privacy issues.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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The Phone Book:,
By "besieged" (MI, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Phone Book: The Latest High-Tech Techniques And Equipment For Preventing Electronic Eavesdropping, Recording Phone Calls, Ending Harassing Calls, And Stopping Toll Fraud (Paperback)
I recommend this book totally. Everyone should read it. We can send video back from Pluto, yet Americans imagine that telephony can't be used against them. We have a culture of denial that assumes technology is benign and that no one wants to use it against us. We are somewhat willing to distrust computer security because computers are recent additions to our life. We aren't at all willing to distrust our phones. They keep us connected. Our lives revolve around them. They are the guardians of our secrets. And, after all, the fear of wiretapping laws deters the crime...Americans need to face the reality of the techology arrayed in this book, and stop believing this kind is harassment is rare. We need books like this to tell us this equipment is not sci-fi. It's cheap, easily available, and easy to use. It's use is not limited to three-letter agencies. It's in the basements of neighbors and co-workers. Radio technology is easier to learn than hacking, which we take seriously, and cheaper to implement. It's even more innocuous. Any people who are worried about internet safety should think about it first. We think electronic voyeurism is rare. We just don't know we're victims. It's a crime commited in secret without obvious clues...but that doesn't make it harmless. The same technophiles who sit alone in a room violating your privacy with a computer are very likely to hook a scanner to it... I enjoyed Mr. Shannon's heart-felt discussion of escalating Federal wiretapping/eavesdropping laws. I believe he would agree that only personal awareness and consumer-driven demands for increased privacy will supply safer technology. Agencies at any level aren't often willing to protect average individuals from invasion. Increased Federal "protection" will take our chance to protect ourselves away.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A competent treatment,
This review is from: The Phone Book: The Latest High-Tech Techniques And Equipment For Preventing Electronic Eavesdropping, Recording Phone Calls, Ending Harassing Calls, And Stopping Toll Fraud (Paperback)
A decent treatment with a good balance between technical and layman's perspective; all I could wish for is that he would put out updates to track newer technology ... an admittedly endless chore!
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Everything you need to know...,
By "mrfluid" (Norway) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Phone Book: The Latest High-Tech Techniques And Equipment For Preventing Electronic Eavesdropping, Recording Phone Calls, Ending Harassing Calls, And Stopping Toll Fraud (Paperback)
This is one of the few books I really can say answered all my expections... Great technical details, yet in plain english... ENJOY!
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Man is by nature a communicative creature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
two phone wires, pager monitor, phone line transmitter, bridging tap, cellular vendors, inductive tap, telephone analyzers, countermeasures receiver, surveillance transmitters, distribution closet, cellular monitoring, infinity transmitter, toll fraud, cable vault, interception system, binder group, frequency inversion, phone transmitter, stepping switches, target phone, connection block, transmitter detector, spy shops, physical search, portable scanner Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, The Bug Book, San Francisco, New York, Power Fax, Private Line, Big Brother, Eagle Plus, Information Security Associates, Secret Service, Viking International, The Phone Book, Digital Privacy, Answering Machine Intruder, Custom Computer Services, Electronic Privacy Information Center, World War, Curtis Electro Devices, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Industries Association, Industrial Services, Pretty Good Privacy, Research Electronics, Technical Services Agency, Western Electric New!
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Man is by nature a communicative creature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
two phone wires, pager monitor, phone line transmitter, bridging tap, cellular vendors, inductive tap, telephone analyzers, countermeasures receiver, surveillance transmitters, distribution closet, cellular monitoring, infinity transmitter, toll fraud, cable vault, interception system, binder group, frequency inversion, phone transmitter, stepping switches, target phone, connection block, transmitter detector, spy shops, physical search, portable scanner Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, The Bug Book, San Francisco, New York, Power Fax, Private Line, Big Brother, Eagle Plus, Information Security Associates, Secret Service, Viking International, The Phone Book, Digital Privacy, Answering Machine Intruder, Custom Computer Services, Electronic Privacy Information Center, World War, Curtis Electro Devices, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Industries Association, Industrial Services, Pretty Good Privacy, Research Electronics, Technical Services Agency, Western Electric New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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