re illegal wiretaps was in article uupcb ssr com dick zeitlin acc bbs ssr com dick zeitlin wrote pk perhaps we need the telephony equivalent of an anonymous remailer for the telephone network back in prohibition days alcohol that is i understand a device called the cheesebox was a popular means to thwart the tracing of telephone calls it connected two phone lines in the back room of an otherwise uninvolved business it was the conceptual predecesso of today s anonymous email remailer the old cheesebox was the pre carterphone version of the call diverter after the carterphone decision there were several vendors that sold call diverters i ve got a couple in my basement that were used to redirect my office phone to my home number when i didn t feel like going into the office it d be quite easy to generate an anonymous redialer version of the call diverter about months ago i heard a report on npr about a number sto pper or some such for placing untraceable calls you call them and on bong tone dial the number you want to call they told the npr interviewer that nothing short of a court order which they d fight would make them release their records matt healy i pretend to be a network administrator the lab net pretends to work matt wardsgi med yale edu
