"toplocker" wrote in message
om...
I'm a freelance journalist doing an article on cel phone spy culture
and would love to talk to some people who have done this with some
frequency. I can quote anonymously and am not looking to do a hatchet
job. Just wanting to learn more about it.

Anyone willing to talk can email me @

Thanks

Michael Clarke

If you're in any kind of big city, just solicit 'on the air'.

A number of years ago, analog cell days, a friend called me and started
to talk on his cell about something that should have been kept secure.

I told him to stop, and he asked why. I told him there could be
eavesdroppers. He said no way, the cell phone company told him people
couldn't listen.

So we made a bet.

He gave his office number out 'over the air' in the call, and we asked any
listeners to call it and leave a message that they were out there. And we
made a bet on it. Sam Adams at the time...

As soon as we did that, he told me he was going to hang up and call his
office to make sure the phone messages were clear and he'd call me back.

I waited and waited. Finally he called. His office number was BUSY and
he couldn't get through to his voice mail. When he finally did, he had a
number of messages, seven if I recall.right, of people listening. One guy
even left a message with a signal strength report and he obviously had a
beam
as he reported 'direction' as my friend was driving...