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August 11, 2005
Syrians Spy On Phone Conversations... Even When Your Phone Is Off
It's a surprise to Michael Totten, but not to me.
It's a long, long, long tradition for spies to keep a phone line open, even when it's not in use, to hear everything that's going on in the room. Usually you need a multi-line phone to do this -- one line is kept open, while actual calls are allowed to go through to the other lines -- or else the target of surveillance will begin to wonder why his phone always gives a busy signal to callers, even when he's not on it.