Wire taps are now digital connections. All ‘landline’ calls are actually IP calls once in the network.
[ Wire taps are now digital connections. All ‘landline’ calls are actually IP calls once in the network. ]
But for those you need “a paper trail”
An illegal wiretap using “off the shelf components” could be built cheaply and if found there is a cold day in hell’s chance of tracing it.
If I were building such a thing I would use off the shelf components and use the voltage of the phone system to “trickle charge” it.
>Wire taps are now digital connections. All ‘landline’ calls are actually IP calls once in the network.
True for providers using softswitches, not those still using TDM based switches such as Lucent 5ESS and NT DMS-100 which can provide service over POTS. However it doesn’t mean that one side or the other couldn’t be IP based.