is it possible for phone lines to be hacked?

well no one ever called up my friend's house asking for their personal info.. and they have caller i.d. so they pretty much know if ever they missed a call or who's calling them. i think they hack phone lines through a computer, not really quite sure.

Would like to know that telephone hackers can hack line phone connected to the morden (digital line phone)? Can they listen our converstaion of personal particulers on the phone? Please reply to me ..Can they also hackkkkkk to computer through that digital phone line?

yup they can listen to our phone conversations, its called wiretapping, but i dunno if its possible to hack a computer using a digital phone. i dont think so anyway coz phones dont have the capabality.

thank you for the info, a long time ago someone thought me how to block my number from appearing in someone's caller i.d. i had to dial a landline and enter a pin code but he wont tell me how he has done it, maybe that's what you refererred to as "reprogramming the caller i.d."? i tried it and i can call our landline and no number appears on it! maybe that guy knew how to hack, he just didnt wanna tell me.

There is actually a way where you can block your number from appearing on someones caller id. I just press*67 before the phone number and my number is blocked!=]

oh but im not from the states, im from the philippines, so*67 is not applicable here, i actually heard of that code too in movies and i kinda tried it on our landline eventhough it wont work, hehe,coz the phone companies here dont offer a service where you can block your number from appearing on the i.d., the technique that i mentioned only works on landlines, coz you need to have a dial-tone, they hack trunk lines and when you hear the recording you interrupt the recording by pressing a PIN or code that they assign,and the next thing you'll hear is another dial-tone,so your # is now blocked.so you can call again with your blocked #,i was surprised, i can call our landline and no number is being registered on the i.d.=) he told me that the # was restricted to local calls only, he said that if they chanced upon a number that's capable of making international calls, anyone who uses that # and knows the PIN they assigned can call for free, untraceable by the phone company. i asked him how to did he do that, he doesnt wanna tell me though.

probably, i dont know what her famliy did after that, all she told me was about the strange overseas billing. we'll see what the phone company has to say.

it was a home phone. yup i think there's a group of people who really know how to do that and make money from it, i asked some of my friends and yes,there are some people who hack random #s and then charge people a one time fee amounting to thousands of pesos depending how the hacker would price it, and then the buyer can now call unlimited to any # worldwide since it is a hacked line, either it will be charged to someone else (they prefer to hack company or business lines) or totally free (if the # is blocked). well they reported it to the phone company and said that things like that really occur, they know that its possible and that they will adjust their bill accordingly to the correct amount.

oh i see, so you have to be a "handyman" of sorts, knowing how to tinker with wires and all, i though it was purely computers that are doing the job.. i didnt have any idea that its possible to connect to a server from another country..

Quote: if u use dial-up internet since when you connect to a server for example in australia you are like being calling to australia.


This isnt exactly true. If you connect to a server anywhere in the world you will likely only be paying for a local call as the only phone call you make is from your modem to your ISP, your ISP then forwards all your requests for you at no further charge. The only time you would be charged more is if some illegitimate software was installed on your computer this could take control of your modem and then start dialling premium rate numbers.

really? i never knew that, thanks for the info. but i really dont know how its possible to connect to an international server since the landline #s that you see on the prepaid internet card are local #s, so once you dial them you will instantly be connected to the net, i dunno how the ISP can connect to an international server in that mannner.. and of course, i think they'd be against the idea coz they will be the ones that are gonna be charged for the calls made..

oh ok, thanks for your input, i didnt know that. but i think it can still be traced by the phone company?

I am thinking it would be easier to hack small phone companies and just use their customer base.
I have been fighting with my phone company who says I am making phone calls to canada which I am not. They say they trace the calls from my phone which is not being used. Only thing I can figure is their service is hacked. Is this reasonable to think?