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Disturbing experience with my cordless phone

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rootaxs

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I turned it on only to find out i could hear the conversation of two other people. Took me a while to figure out that my cordless was intercepting their signal one way or the other. Admittedly, i was on it for a while until the busy tone came up and that didn't seem to bother them (either that or they couldn't hear it on their side).

So i turned it off and on again. This time it was okay, but i played around with the channel selector and *blam* there they were again! I did this on-off-channel cycle a couple more times and i could easily duplicate the same situation.

Thing is, my cordless phone is a 900mhz "Digital" Panasonic. The way this worked it felt like i had a scanner rather than a phone.

I always had a feeling that 900mhz cordless phone's weren't necessarily secure, i guess this experience just proved that. :disgust:
 
Originally posted by: rootaxs
I turned it on only to find out i could hear the conversation of two other people. Took me a while to figure out that my cordless was intercepting their signal one way or the other. Admittedly, i was on it for a while until the busy tone came up and that didn't seem to bother them (either that or they couldn't hear it on their side).

So i turned it off and on again. This time it was okay, but i played around with the channel selector and *blam* there they were again! I did this on-off-channel cycle a couple more times and i could easily duplicate the same situation.

Thing is, my cordless phone is a 900mhz "Digital" Panasonic. The way this worked it felt like i had a scanner rather than a phone.

I always had a feeling that 900mhz cordless phone's weren't necessarily secure, i guess this experience just proved that. :disgust:
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hehe, i picked up a korean radio station on my 900 mhz phone once... no idea how the hell that worked.
 
My dad used to listen to people's phone conversations around our neighborhood on his ham radio....

Apparently the high school girl across the street was a slut.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
My dad used to listen to people's phone conversations around our neighborhood on his ham radio....

Apparently the high school girl across the street was a slut.
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:Q
 
Originally posted by: dabuddha
Originally posted by: minus1972
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: MeanMeosh
Originally posted by: notfred
My dad used to listen to people's phone conversations around our neighborhood on his ham radio....

Apparently the high school girl across the street was a slut.
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:Q
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Pics? 😀

- M4H
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lol
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did you hit it? 😀
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yeah pics?

rofl....

yeah i'd hit it ...

neways, i used to do this w/ my crazy walkie talkie.....expensive walkie talkie...and back in the day, there were chat rooms in the air.......u can talk to people through the radio waves w/ my walkie talkie...it was coool intercepting truck drivers....i intecepted a small prop plane talking to someone...that was coool...
 
That's kind of odd. AFAIK, that shouldn't happen on a digital model. Only on the old analog 49Mhz and the cheaper analog 900MHz and 2400MHz models.

Maybe it was a similar Panasonic model that you were intercepting on the same channel (due to a firmware glitch or something). I figure any digital Panasonic handset might be able to decode and listen to any digital Panasonic base. It's not supposed to, but I bet that technically, it could.
 
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Originally posted by: dabuddha
Originally posted by: minus1972
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: MeanMeosh
Originally posted by: notfred
My dad used to listen to people's phone conversations around our neighborhood on his ham radio....

Apparently the high school girl across the street was a slut.
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:Q
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Pics? 😀

- M4H
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lol
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did you hit it? 😀
Click to expand...

yeah pics?

rofl....

yeah i'd hit it ...

neways, i used to do this w/ my crazy walkie talkie.....expensive walkie talkie...and back in the day, there were chat rooms in the air.......u can talk to people through the radio waves w/ my walkie talkie...it was coool intercepting truck drivers....i intecepted a small prop plane talking to someone...that was coool...
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Yeup, use to work at Radio Shack.. people come in for these things. You just hit scan.. and boom you pick up signals just like that. When you choose a phone, make sure it has the DSS (Digital SPread Spectrum). Unfortunately, people are entertained by listening in on others conversations.
 
ya i listened in on a neighbor chicks conversation once. she was fighting with her bf and saying how she was the only one she had been with and blah blah blah
 
Originally posted by: Kenji4861
Yeup, use to work at Radio Shack.. people come in for these things. You just hit scan.. and boom you pick up signals just like that. When you choose a phone, make sure it has the DSS (Digital SPread Spectrum). Unfortunately, people are entertained by listening in on others conversations.
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What do the plain non-DSS "digital" phones sound like on a scanner? I'd assume it's just a buzzing sound or something, right?
 
I remember reading that Some of the 'digital' models would transmit in analogue and receive in digital (or viceversa) so you could hear half the conversation if you had a scanner and were on the right channel. Can you hear both parties? If not, that may be what it is.

 
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