So Have We Come Full Circle - Now Back to Using Pay Phones

[leftyladyfrommo]

If I were part of the media talking to sources I certainly wouldn't be using my own phones. And I wouldn't have my sources using their own phones.

Ironic - I just saw where the old pay phone on the corner is being done away with because so many people just use their cell phones.

We might even have to go back to letter writing. But I wouldn't feel too safe with that.

God, what a sorry state of affairs.

[SmokingJacket]

1. Well, it would be great if they brought back the whole phone BOOTH.

Not much privacy with those phones on stalks that are all that's left nowadays...

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I always liked those red phone booths they have in Britain.

They just have a certain flair about them.

But really, how do we communicate now? Smoke signals? Buy a new cell phone once a month? Can they even track those if you buy a prepaid card?

I just don't know how this is all going to work out.

[MadHound]

3. As you've observed, not many pay phones left

I imagine that it will get back to the old Soviet era style, people taking long walks in the park together, heads close together so as nobody can hear.

What'sad is that anybody with a half decent brain in their head can come up with some sort of personal code that works in a small circle of folks. For instance, back in the misspent days of my youth, when we wished to talk dope, dope deals on the phone, we had a whole entire code ready involving baseball. We talked long and loud many times about baseball, doing our transactions with nobody the wiser. Now imagine millions of people doing that.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Wouldn't it be pitiful it all came back to that?

I would really like to feel like I can call people and have them call me and not feel like I have to be careful about everything I say.

[ContraBass Black]

5. Niether letter writing nor pay phones are more secure.

You'll have to whisper into your contact's ear in a secure and remote location.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. What about those listening devices the police use - these

disc things that they can point at people and pick up what they are saying from a long way away. I don't know anything about them other than what I see in movies.

[ContraBass Black]

8. Your secure remote location has to be in a place with no cover

And you have to probe the ground to make sure there's no subterranean listening station.

[Patsy Stone]

7. Pay phones and calling cards.

One pay phone to another and long distance made through calling cards to your friend or relative on another pay phone.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. Fortunately I don't have anything that important to say.

But if I ever do I will remember.

And I am going to get myself a black trenchcoat and a fedora hat. Just for the hell of it.

[Patsy Stone]

12. Dog's barking

Can't fly without umbrella. Pass it on...

:)

[slybacon9]

10. yeah right.... i don't care THAT much.

the reason they will pull this off is because americans are willing to trade their privacy for convenience. Hell, americans are willing to trade their friggin lives for convenience (just look at the diabetes numbers).

turn in my cell phone? Ha. They can have my privacy. My life isn't much to listen to, and as i learned about 2 years ago, when they want to arrest you, they will.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. Actually, I would like my privacy back, thank you very much.

I don't want my calls listened to.

I don't want my medical records going out to the public.

I want to be able to use a credit card without it being common knowledge.

I just don't want the private things in my life open for public consumption.

I want my privacy back!

[Duer 157099]

13. Telepathy. The wave of the future

Start practicing now

[No New War]

14. They'll probably start putting cameras in phone booths

"to make sure that they don't get vandalized" of course.
not to spy.
they'd never do that.