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Listeners They've been listening for longer than you think. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. A new history reveals how--and why.Wiretapping is nearly as old as…
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They've been listening for longer than you think. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. A new history reveals how--and why.Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications.
Communications firms have assisted government eavesdropping programs since the early twentieth century--and they have spied on their own customers too. Law enforcement agencies were listening to private telephone calls as early as 1895. Such breaches of privacy once provoked outrage, but today most Americans have resigned themselves to constant electronic monitoring.
How did we get from there to here?In The Listeners, Brian Hochman shows how the wiretap evolved from a specialized intelligence-gathering tool to a mundane fact of life. He explores the origins of wiretapping in military campaigns and criminal confidence games and tracks the use of
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