rhino wrote on Nov 13^th, 2021 at 10:04pm:


In the 1980s, the telecommunications system relied on cassette recording to keep a record of what was said. Millions of phone calls could be made per day and each of them could be recorded to cassette in sequential order. By the 1990s, the telecommunications system moved to recording to computer harddrive. If you bothered to research the topic, you would know that Telstra has numerous mini supercomputers tasked with keeping the telephone (and internet) connections multitasked with incoming and outgoing phone calls around the nation. I bet you could load up a dozen youtube videos and have a cacophony of recordings playing on your computer without any performance problems. And that does not eat up storage. I could imagine large efficient and powerful computer systems that Telstra own would be able to easily handle phone traffic and recording.

So, what are you seeing when there are cameras mounted on poles near traffic intersections and cameras in most shops you might frequent? Scare tactics? I cannot drive through town without being shown on camera a few times every minute.

NorthOfNorth wrote on Nov 13^th, 2021 at 9:53pm:


I am not sure what you meant of this post. rhino just lashed out with contempt to a fair question. All he had to do was say "I do not know" and leave it at that. Or he could have enlightened me that my 33 years of prior knowledge of this system was wrong. How is it that we can get records of a phone call from Telstra's record system and have the phone call played to the person who was on the phone call? They use records of phone call conversations for court purposes.

Aussie wrote on Nov 13^th, 2021 at 8:24pm:


Pics? Surely...

imagine Jones coming at you in a dark alley with a hand full of Vaseline....frightening.

John Smith wrote on Nov 14^th, 2021 at 5:42pm:


Cassette tapes are not those little biddy cassette tapes we would put in a regular tape player. I am talking about the ones with the bigger reels that record away for months at a time.

And when I talk about the phone calls being used as evidence in court, I mean that prosecutors would obtain a copy of the phone recording from the telecommunications company and use it in court. I had to attend court in 1997 to play witness to a phone call I received. Without revealing the details of the court case, I was asked to identify the caller. Then asked if he was present in the courtroom. Now, if the playback of the phone call was available for the court, how the hell is that not an example of the Telstra recording phone conversations?

Criminals stay off their mobile phones when they are doing deals and other dastardly acts. And usually, they have their phones off to avoid detection. Sooo, if they are dumb enough to be engaging in talk about criminal activity, not only would they leave a record of what they say, they can also leave a record of where they are.

You are complicating an issue that should have been easier for you to understand than you are making it seem.

UnSubRocky wrote on Nov 14^th, 2021 at 7:30pm:



Has it ever occurred to you that YOUR phone calls are being recorded not everyone's? given your many interactions with the police it seems you are a person of interest which might explain the paranoia you feel.

Jim Lahey wrote on Nov 14^th, 2021 at 7:35pm:


Thinking that I was the person of interest to the police was my first explanation about why I heard phone call recordings involving me. But, when you watch news segments where phone calls regarding criminal activity are played, you would wonder that it seems unusual that THOSE phone calls are recorded and not others.