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Click … Click … Click … What’s the Number?

SUMMARY

NSA staff working on the BABBLEQUEST project can listen on phone lines and, by analyzing acoustic signals, determine what numbers a given telephone is dialing, whether from a digital or old-fashioned rotary phone. 

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Sep 21, 2006

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

May 29, 2019