Phone Wiretap: Direct

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.

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

• 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===     |
|                                                 |
+-------------------------------------------------+