TSGL: Phone Phreakers

[Will Seehorn]

This is off topic, I know, but this group knows so much about 
everything that I figured someone would be able to point me in the 
right direction.

Among other things I'm a union steward, in a US government agency.

In talking to one of my members she says that she knows that it is 
possible (because she heard one of the investigators from the Office 
of Inspector General -- kind of like the Agency's FBI) tell a manager 
that he could listen into any phone conversation by dialing a four 
(?) digit number and then the phone number.  I'm willing to belive 
that this is true for the office's internal phone system (four digits 
and the extension), but she says that it is true for any phone, 
anywhere, including, she thinks. cell phones.

I also know that at one time it was a federal crime to intercept and 
reveal/use phone calls. She says the Patriot Act has changed all that.

I'm sure the NSA has the ability to do interceptions, but we're not 
talking NSA here, we're talking Social Security Administration. For 
some reason I don't think that our investigators are NSA quality 
(unless the NSA has nothing better to do than listen in on the phone 
calls of employees who've filed grievances.)

Comments, leads?

Thanks

Will 
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