Thread: What's the cheapest way to make a phone call to Russia

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Yeah, but 300 million of them? Maybe they have one guy listening to random calls? Non-suspicious just means their name was Al Jihady or something like that.

I'm not saying they listen to every single call. That's what I meant before, I thought most governments did random checks or something.

Listening to random phone calls is probably not the most efficient way to locate a terrorist but I certainly don't have anything to say that I would care if homeland security heard. I think what happens is when someone's job in the governmet becomes obsolete they can't fire them so they put them to usless tasks like listening to phone calls or monitoring MR.com.

monitoring MR.com.

How did you know?

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Yeah, but 300 million of them? Maybe they have one guy listening to random calls? Non-suspicious just means their name was Al Jihady or something like that.

It's 21st century now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
That system IS functioning.

There were a joke some time in the past:
NSA = No Such Agency

the cheapest way would be a phone card called "Calente' " from what I hear you can get 3 chasa za 10 dollar.

i esli vi pizvanite ot doma use 1010987 eta 3 dollars za minite i poslietava 3 kopeks za minute.

I cant write Russian to save my butt and barely speak it to survive. so forgive my many mistakes

i was talking to my American friend on skype the other day and he asked a question about the skypeout tariffs and a small menu with prices instantly popped up. good thing we weren't plotting
(for the recored it only costs 0.06 cents to call a russian mobile and it wont drain credit)

my bro lives in Cyprus,when i call him both we pay for that...

Originally Posted by Layne

You have to pay to receive calls on a cell phone in the US, but not with land lines.
If you're near a computer when you want to call, www.skype.com will allow you to place calls from your computer to regular phones anywhere in the world for very little money and from one computer to another for free. Its not as handy as a regular phone but I like the free part.

Oh, it's a good program -- but only if you have a high speed connection.

I would say use Skype - it's pretty reliable, and encrypted if i remember correctly.

As for phone calls in the US - you don't have to pay for incoming calls. In fact, if people are on the same carrier as you, you don't have to pay to call them, either. And as for the NSA - they aren't listening to phone calls. They simply log who you called and build a database of your social network (@TATY, typically the people who are for the war in Iraq also don't have a problem with the NSA's illegal activities).

tdk

I hate to break it to you guys but the government listening in on phone calls is nothing new. They have been doing it for quite a number of years under a program called Eschelon (i think that is the spelling)

And what's more all lot of countries are in on this including Britain and Australia.
All phone calls are randomly monitored by huge computers that pick up on certain key words and record the conversations.

Last time I checked US and Britain still deny that Eschelon exists but Australian officials have openly spoken of it.

Originally Posted by DDT

Last time I checked US and Britain still deny that Eschelon exists but Australian officials have openly spoken of it.

Lousy honest Ausies, be less... open.

Originally Posted by scotcher

Originally Posted by DDT

Last time I checked US and Britain still deny that Eschelon exists but Australian officials have openly spoken of it.

Lousy honest Ausies, be less... open.

That reminds me, there were time when NSA had stood for No Such Agency.

Originally Posted by scotcher

Originally Posted by DDT

Last time I checked US and Britain still deny that Eschelon exists but Australian officials have openly spoken of it.

Lousy honest Ausies, be less... open.

I think that the whole thing is hillarious!!

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:GFz ... =firefox-a
http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cov ... pt_335.asp
http://www.greaterthings.com/Word-Numbe ... s/Echelon/
http://mediafilter.org/caq/echelon/