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Your Wife Is Watching You
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| 9/6/01
| Mike Egan
Posted on 09/06/2001 9:44:23 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
A company in Taiwan has created a cell phone designed to enable Taiwanese wives to spy on their husbands traveling on business to mainland China -- two-thirds of whom engage in extramarital relations, according to local surveys.
The phones contain a chip which, when activated by calling a special number, picks up nearby sounds through the phone's microphone and transmits them without alerting the person carrying the phone.
The downsides are that the phone costs $1,800 and is unavailable outside of Taiwan.
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To: NativeNewYorker
This could be very useful for recording conversations with law enforcement officials. Even if they take your cell phone from you, they can't unrecord what you already transmitted to your trusty answering machine.
To: NativeNewYorker
And that's why I don't carry a cell phone...!
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posted on
09/06/2001 9:49:32 AM PDT
by
HiJinx
To: NativeNewYorker
There are many cell phones that can be activated remotely. Corporations concerned with industrial espionage provide their employees with a list of cell phone models that lack this "feature".
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posted on
09/06/2001 10:25:08 AM PDT
by
Dead Dog
To: Dead Dog
My husband takes the cell phone with him when he goes to work at his overnight job. So one morning at 3am I get a call. I trudge over to the kitchen & pick up the phone, since that's the number he would call if he had to. I hear muffled voices - hubby and another woman! I say "hello?" No answer, just more muffled talk. HELLO! More muffled voices. The phone must be in his pocket & the Redial button had gotten pushed somehow...
They talk, and talk some more. I can't make out the words, but it becomes apparent that it's a light workplace-type conversation. And then I hear ... noises. After a few seconds I realize it's his forklift. This goes on for a minute despite my banging the phone receiver down & yelling "HEY HANG UP THE D*** PHONE", and finally I remember that his phone'll just hang up if I hang up, & I give up & go back to bed.
I've always trusted my hubby completely, and it felt really, really weird listening in on his workday. It would be really sad if I ever felt I had to spy on him!
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posted on
09/06/2001 12:17:16 PM PDT
by
jennyp
To: jennyp
That's the same way we know that my Dad talks to himself! LOL Yep, cell phone in his pocket. Hilarious.
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posted on
09/06/2001 12:45:17 PM PDT
by
Anthem
To: jennyp
That's why I always make sure I punch the 'Menu *' on my Nokia and lock it down; then it will only answer, not dial out. Good feature.
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posted on
09/06/2001 1:28:07 PM PDT
by
brityank
To: jennyp
No kidding, I've always stayed with the flip phones that cover the key pad. I enjoy talking trash about my employers and could just imagine what an inadvertent radial could do to my career.
Overhearing parts of a spouses conversation out of context could be worse.
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posted on
09/06/2001 2:56:45 PM PDT
by
Dead Dog
To: jennyp
I get radio voicemails all the time on mine. I still haven't figured out who is doing it.... It sounds like someone is driving and the radio is just blaring away. If its a good song, I'll listen and sing along. (Not.)
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