At the time, Galgano was the subject to a wiretap on his phone, for tampering and attempting to bribe a witness in the Putnam County rape case. more
Thursday, August 11, 2022
Wiretap: Listen to What Witness Tampering Sounds Like
At the time, Galgano was the subject to a wiretap on his phone, for tampering and attempting to bribe a witness in the Putnam County rape case. more
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
MA - Lawmaker Hopes to Change Wiretapping Law
Alex Fopiano was in court today as his lawyer asked the judge to dismiss the criminal charges against him. He is accused of attempting to suffocate his wife, Shauna Fopiano, with a pillow...
She was criminally charged with eight counts of illegal wiretapping for making secret recordings of her husband, her alleged abuser. In a deal approved earlier this month, the charges will be dismissed in six months as long as she commits no other crimes.
"I was shocked that this is something that could still actually happen to somebody in Massachusetts," said state Sen. Patrick O'Connor, R-Weymouth.
The state's wiretapping law makes it a criminal offense to record someone without their permission. O'Connor said it should be updated to include an exemption to give victims of domestic violence the chance to record their abusers. more
Saturday, May 7, 2022
The Colorful Side of Eavesdropping & Wiretaps
In one regiment, one Russian soldier allegedly said they’ve been pouring sand into the tanks’ fuel systems to clog them up.
“I don't follow stupid orders, I simply refuse,” one fighter can be heard telling a comrade. “The motherf*cker sent me to tanks, motherf*cking piece of shit. I f*cked it up and that's it.”
When the fellow Russian soldier on the other end of the line heard the unit wasn’t punished for the insubordination, he indicated he might repeat the tactic later in his own unit...
Monday, April 11, 2022
Professional Dealing With Illegal Electronic Surveillance
Not so long ago surveillance has been considered a government or spy agency priority. However a lot has changed.
The rapid research and development in information technologies and electronic devices, along with their shrinkage in size has made surveillance obtainable to each of us. All you have to do is Google for GSM tracker, spy camera, hidden voice recorder. Don’t be surprised to see hundreds of thousands or even millions of espionage gear offers...
Detecting the bugging devices is not an easy and simple work. The term describing this type of activity is TSCM which is the abbreviation of Technical Surveillance Counter Measures. TSCM survey is a service provided by qualified personnel to detect the presence of technical surveillance devices and hazards and to identify technical security weaknesses that could aid in the conduct of a technical penetration of the surveyed facility.
A TSCM survey normally consists of a thorough
visual, electronic and physical inspection inside and outside of the
surveyed facility. In conducting surveillance protection one has to be
familiar with the tapping methods; hardware and software products;
engineering solutions used for this purpose as well as their unmasking
signs. Without this knowledge it is not possible to detect a well hidden
bug. more
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream
by Brian Hochman, Director of American Studies and Associate Professor of English, Georgetown University
On February 11, 1955, an anonymous tip led two New York Police Department detectives and two New York Telephone Company investigators to an apartment on the fourth floor of a residential building at 360 East 55th Street in midtown Manhattan.
In the back bedroom of the unit, the group discovered a cache of stolen wiretapping equipment that turned out to have direct lines into six of New York City’s largest telephone exchanges: PLaza 1, 3, and 5; MUrray Hill 8; ELdorado 5; and TEmpleton 8.
The connections blanketed an area of Manhattan running from East 38th Street to East 96th Street, a swath of the city’s most expensive real estate.
“There wasn’t a single tap-free telephone on the east side of New York,” professional wiretapper Bernard Spindel remarked of the arrangement. (Spindel was in all likelihood the source of the anonymous tip.) News of the discovery made the front page of the New York Times a week later. more
A History of Wiretapping in the United States
Such breaches of privacy once provoked outrage, but today most Americans have resigned themselves to constant electronic monitoring. How did we get from there to here?
Hochman explores the origins of wiretapping in military campaigns and criminal confidence games, and tracks the use of telephone taps in the U.S. government’s wars on alcohol, communism, terrorism, and crime. more
Monday, March 21, 2022
A History of Wiretapping in the United States
Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. Law enforcement agencies were listening to private telephone calls as early as 1895. Communications firms have assisted government eavesdropping programs since the early 20th century―and they have spied on their own customers, too. Such breaches of privacy once provoked outrage, but today most Americans have resigned themselves to constant electronic monitoring.
How did we get from there to here? Hochman explores the origins of wiretapping in military campaigns and criminal confidence games, and tracks the use of telephone taps in the U.S. government’s wars on alcohol, communism, terrorism, and crime... more
Monday, November 22, 2021
Philly Cheesey Stakeout Comes Up Dry
Wiretapping Quote of the Week
Six years of wiretapping and this is what the Feds got? Cue Peggy Lee singing “Is that All There Is?"
~ Tom Cardella
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Watergate-style Scandal Rocks Bulgaria Ahead of Election
Bulgaria's National Security and Technical Operations agencies eavesdropped on opposition politicians in the run-up to last month's parliamentary elections, caretaker Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov said on Friday.
Why it matters: Rashkov was echoing echoing claims from
a leading opposition politician, who said 32 politicians from three
parties had been wiretapped. All three parties are opponents of the
long-term ruling party, GERB, and former prime minister Boyko Borissov,
who dominated Bulgarian politics for the past decade. more
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Criminal Group Accused of Wiretapping State Officals & Companies
"On March 30, police officers carried out a series of searches at residences of members of a criminal group as part of a case ‘on illegal wiretapping.’ The searches took place at 13 locations simultaneously. The wide-scale operation was triggered by an attempt of a key suspect to hide abroad. He was apprehended on March 27 during an attempt to cross the border with Kazakhstan," the source said.
According to the source, the wiretapping of city administration officials and city Duma deputies, as well as regional authorities and representatives of major companies took place in the fall of 2019. more
Intel Sued Under Wiretapping Laws
FL - A class-action suit in Lake County, Florida, alleges that Intel unlawfully intercepted communications without user consent. The claim is backed by the usage of analytics technology on Intel’s company website. Intel capitalizes on session-replay software to capture the interactions of people visiting the corporate homepage, a violation of user rights.
According to the lawsuit, Intel is violating the Florida
state wiretapping law by capturing keystrokes, mouse movements, and
other similar session-replay tech. more
Friday, August 7, 2020
Woman Charged with Wiretapping at Church
MD - A woman is facing felony wiretapping charges on allegations she secretly recorded board meetings at the Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary.
Rosanna
E. Tufts, 61, of Cockeysville, was charged with 11 counts of
interception, disclosure or use of wire, electronic or oral
communication. more
Monday, July 6, 2020
US Court Rules Facebook Widgets can be Considered Wiretaps
The social media firm has long defended its actions by quoting the part of the federal Wiretap Act that defines wiretapping as interception of communications. According to a Gizmodo report, in Facebook’s logic, gathering user data isn’t the same as wiretapping without that active interception.
However, a panel of judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the US has dismissed this technicality as it was found that the Facebook widget was collecting information from people who didn’t click on it. Such actions, they ruled, count as interception. more
How attackers hack mobile networks...
Friday, June 26, 2020
This Month in Wiretapping History
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Senate Panel Says U.S. Telecoms Failed to Prevent Chinese Spying
That resulted in four of China’s largest such telecom companies being able to operate subsidiaries here with almost no oversight, according to the report from the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s investigations panel.
It might also have allowed them to help the Chinese government spy on reams of data from U.S. companies by routing their phone and Internet traffic through China, the report finds. more
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
The Man Who Hacked Former President Francois Mitterrand's Phone
The billionaire co-owner of Le Monde newspaper, Xavier Niel, 52, told the Parliamentary Channel that as a teen in the 1980s he worked undercover for the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance after he was caught hacking the French channel Canal+...
Niel claims he was tasked with hacking into the mobile telephone of President Mitterrand in 1986 as well as the car company Renault. In the process he found that Renault was being hacked by people from Australia who were downloading large chunks of data.
“We were doing all this for ourselves as a game and we would pass on the information,” Niel said. “It was just fun. It was thrilling to get around the system. They told us it was impossible.” more
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Bosnian Leader Brags He Illegally Wiretapped - (WWHT)
The charges were filed after Dodik told the parliament in the mainly Serb entity of Bosnia, Republika Srpska, on May 20 that he often listened in to telephone conversations between representatives of the opposition parties, saying it was normal practice.
Dodik stated that he was eavesdropping on the representatives of the opposition by phone, that every government was eavesdropping on the opposition, and he recounted the content of telephone conversations of opposition members... more
Monday, May 18, 2020
Leaked Phone Call Uncovers Possibly Moldy Marijuana | Fact or Business Espionage Trick?
The conversation cannot be confirmed as legitimate, and could even be business espionage...
In the audio, a person who appears to be a manager of one of Anchorage’s largest marijuana stores admits that his company sold 100 pounds of possibly moldy marijuana, and that CBD oil that was supposed to have a low psychoactive level of THC was found to, in fact, contain high amounts...
The video can be viewed by searching for Bobb Dogg on YouTube. The audio is labeled “Weedileaks.” more