Christopher Warner Studies and thoughts, usually in coherent fashion.

6Jan/090

Optoelectronic Eavesdropping Techniques

A long time ago I used to run a bulletin board system (bbs). This was probably 1993-94 I was 14-15 at the time. Back then the internet was pretty useless for information and everyone did the bbs thing. I'm not going to say the bbs name or anything like that but I did a search and came across this article by Q. I'm pretty sure this was written long before it appeared in PIMP, actually I am quite positive. Anyway; it's sad that you still can't find good writing like this unless you read acm papers. Everything I know about the phone system I learned from Q and our conversations on tdb and tdf.. it's been nearly a decade since last convo. It's a long story i'm not gonna rehash here and i'm sure if you want to do the triaging you can find some pretty good reading about it; anyway.. I had this setup in my parents basement all those years ago.. I could probably still put one together... No one remembers red boxes, rainbow boxes, blue boxes.. those days are over.. everyone is all grown up now. The sad part is..  No one writes like this anymore..... .. .. or.. :-) maybe I need to pay the wrc a visit and catch up. Formatting is fudged but you can search for the title of the paper for proper diagram formatting.