Direct Wiretap

This tutorial is basically a re-write of a previous tutorial on wiretapping. this tutorial is aimed at people who want to monitor/record phone conversations, but are too lazy to read a complicated diagram. Keeping this in mind, this method is not exactly good for the phone line, phones, tape recorder, etc. The pros and cons are listed below.

• PROS

  • Easy to make
  • Requires next-to-no technical knowlage
  • Made quickly
  • Cheap

• Cons

  • Not good for phone/phone line
  • Lowers phone volume on all ends
  • ILLEGAL AS HELL Now, let's begin! First, let's gather the ingredients...

• 1x Tape recorder

• 1x Blank tape

• 1x Phone line

• 1x Headphone cable

• 1x Wirestippers/pocket knife/etc

• 1x Roll electrical tape

• 1x Scissors Once you get these, it is time to begin. First off, cut the headphones off of the headphone cable, so that the end you plug into the cd player/computer is left attached to the cable. +----------------Headphone Cable------------------+ | | |-|=|===||+++++++++++++++++++++|| <-- cut off here| | | +-------------------------------------------------+ Second, Cut one of the phone jack off of the phone cable. +------------------Phone Cable--------------------+ | | |-|=|===||+++++++++++++++++++++|| <-- cut off here| | | +-------------------------------------------------+ After this, strip about 5 inches of the phone cord from the end that does not have a phone jack. Thenstrip about 5 inches from the headphone cable (not the end with the headphone jack). +----------------Phone/Headphone------------------+ | -------------------------------+====RED==== | | end with jack | | | -------------------------------+===GREEN=== | | | | -------------------------------+====RED==== | | end with jack |===WHITE=== | | -------------------------------+===GREEN=== | | | +-------------------------------------------------+