Re: F-plug need to be fully tightened?

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:41:45 +0100, Burton Bradstock
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> wrote:

>
>GoldIntermetallicEmbrittlement wrote:
>
>>Also, a connection IS required. There is no "jumping the gap" at any
>>frequency. RF lines are not your car's spark plug wires.
>
>In Peter Wright's book Spycatcher, he describes a technique for
>remotely bugging the phones of the day - 1950s - by using an RF
>carrier to bridge the hookswitch by means of its innate capacitance
>and therefore activate the microphone. A dim memory suggests it used a
>frequency somewhere around Medium Wave - about the same as ADSL.


 It barely worked on SOME susceptible phones at the time, and for a time
after that, but none of the modern ISDN switched phones do, and the
construction is different now as well.

  Then, all hook switches were exposed, just like the old pinball
machines.  Most are sealed switches these days.  Still, there are far
more and better ways of surveilling someone's activities.

 But sure... that was one "genius'" "discovery". Again, it required a
specific set of cir***stances to work. The main one likely being a
warrant.