This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: 1st post and general query
Article: 7899 of alt.hackers From: jholder@nmsu.edu (John Holder) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: 1st post and general query Date: 28 May 1995 15:55:28 GMT Organization: New Mexico State University Lines: 24 Approved: By all means, yes! Distribution: world Message-ID: 3qa6dg$3hd@bubba.NMSU.Edu NNTP-Posting-Host: madison.nmsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
Thus spake John Bailin (jbailin@cnct.com):
] ObHack: Back when I was an obnoxious pre-teenager I discovered a neat
] (or so I thought) way to bug my Big Brother's phone conversations. I
] had a telephone extension with that old 4 prong design and of course
] found that only 2 prongs were necessary to make a proper connection. I
] soon discovered that if I inserted one of the necessary prongs in the
] jack, and then wet both my index and middle fingers and made the 2nd
] connection by touching one wet finger to the male prong and one wet
] finger to the female receptacle, there was just enough resistance to
] allow me to listen in but not be heard.
] Oh well. These are the stupid things that young siblings do :-)
yup. My ObHack:
When I was in high school, my little sister was ALWAYS on the phone. When
I needed to use it (my calls were about 1 min, "Hey. Busy? Let's hang.
Your place? See ya in 5."), I just grounded out the phone wires so she
couldn't hear anything, think the line went dead, hung up, then I could
place my call.
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