Audio Surveillance Software

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Call Logging Services and Devices

Your covert operations might be as simple as purchasing a device that will log and display all incoming calls to your phone line, also known as Caller ID.

You will need to subscribe to this service from your network provider (which you should note will show up on your phone bill). In addition, you will either need a phone that can display the incoming number or a Caller ID box.

(The name of the incoming caller is not provided with the service in certain countries, including the U.S.). These are not simple devices to conceal. But depending on where and how it is installed, the other phone-using members of the household will not necessarily know it is there. Or if they do see it, perhaps their reaction to its existence will be revealing in itself.

If you are using a covert recording device to monitor your phone line, you can use a touch tone recorder (roughly $100), which will “listen” to dialed phone tones and display the numbers on the screen. Because this device has a microphone built into it, you don’t need to connect it to the recorder. To make use of this device, however, you will need to record the touch tones that are dialed on the phone using a tape recorder or digital recording device, one that is concealed near enough to the target phone. Computer technology, however, might offer you better comprehensive options…

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Audio Surveillance Software – spy tactics

When you talk about audio (and location) surveillance, there’s a few obvious things that come to mind: phone taps, body wires, microtransmitters, tracking devices. Many of these devices have been impressed on our popular imagination through spy thrillers or detective movies. The good news is that most of these methods are available to us in some form.

The not so good news is that many of them are expensive and, in their real-life form as commercial products, are not all that practical or necessary for an amateur spy.

There’s a few simple questions that any spy will need to consider before seizing on any one particular spy tactic:

  • Do you need to identify actual content of a conversation, or is it enough to
    determine the identity of the people talking by hearing just a sampling of
    voices? Or perhaps even a recorded log of inbound and outbound phone
    numbers will suffice?
  • Do you want to listen in to a conversation in “real time,” as it occurs, or
    are you able to entertain the (more convenient) option of recording calls
    and listening to them later?
  • Do you have direct access to the phone or location you would like to tap
    into? Do you require a portable device that allows you to monitor multiple
    locations?
  •  How much do you want to spend?

Short of building your own electronic devices – and there are plenty of hobbyist manuals available to this end – you should expect to fork out anywhere between $25 and $100 for some worthwhile equipment. These questions can help guide you toward the simplest and most potent spy arsenal for our own situation. Now let’s see what’s on offer…