Security

[Grouchy]

This is not a secure sight! Be careful on your posts! 

[TexWeatherby]

Nothing online is actually secure when you get right down to it whether a site says it's secure or not.

[Grouchy]

This very moment it says 122 "guests" here and 2 members.  I agree that once we went online and used a cell phone our privacy went in the crapper

[truck driver + 2]

Funny thing is it started way before the Cell phone went in use.
I had a friend who's home phone was tapped and every time I called him I could hear someone pick up after he answered the phone. Him and his wife worked for the Feds.
I held several security clearances over the years and have had numerous back round checks, my life was an open book even after I retired and may still be.

[Grouchy]

Funny thing is it started way before the Cell phone went in use.
I had a friend who's home phone was tapped and every time I called him I could hear someone pick up after he answered the phone. Him and his wife worked for the Feds.
I held several security clearances over the years and have had numerous back round checks, my life was an open book even after I retired and may still be.


30 years with the Telco says you need a  court order to tap a land line or permission , not so with a cell or internet!  I saw 3 such hard wired court ordered taps and saw proof of one other. The one I can talk openly about was a print shop making false titles for cars near Rockville Md. in the early 70's. One other was a known drug dealer that copped a deal and "disappeared" into witness protection. The other 2 involved national security agency on Fort Meade, just outside Laurel Md.

[truck driver + 2]

It's very possible permission was given since the wife of my friend held a very high sensitive position in the fed. he retired from the N.I.H. and died mysteriously a few years ago during covid. Fell off a step ladder in his garage while home alone. Wife found him laying on the cement floor when she came home.

[Grouchy]

Did he know the Clintons?

[truck driver + 2]

Not that I know of.

[TexWeatherby]

Certain jobs. you're never really fully "retired" until you're dead if you know too much; they can easily arrange it if need be.

[Grouchy]

I have worked at a ton of secure places for the telco because I had the clearance.   

[danno50]

Not about security, just an off the wall question on phones. The iPhone has an app. called Face Time designed to have a visual face to face call on the phone screen. Do other carriers have similar apps. and if so, can this kind of app. be used across carrier lines?
      Pardon the detour from posted subject.

[truck driver + 2]

There is at least one app for Android that can called Signal which I used to talk with my Grandson while he was deployed. He would call me on his I phone when he was in a secured area.

[buffybr]

I grew up with phone party lines where we had to first listen if anyone else was on the line before we dialed a call...

[Grouchy]

I repaired party lines and even open wire phone lines. 

[224KING]

We were on a party line right up to about 1980.