Bob,

They've been scanning calls so long, changing won't matter now.  Besides, 
everything eventually passes through a satellite and they pull it from the 
down links of the sats no matter what type of phone you use.  Even a sat 
phone itself, though a little more difficult, can be scanned and or 
recorded.  I suppose some on this list heard coast to coast the other night 
with the guest who reported on how much data they can store at the NSA and 
the new buildings going up in Utah for nothing but data storage?  If each 
contact were a piece of paper, and you stacked the one on top of the other, 
they would reach to the moon and back again 66 million round trips.  That is 
a lot of data.

Phil.
K0NX




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob, K8LR" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: Magic Jack


> Hi,
>
> I had MagicJack Plus for one year and switch to Google Voice using an
> OBITalk router as the sound quality was so much better and it was free of
> charge at least for now.  But since I learned that the NSA is listening to
> all of our phone calls and emails, I'm switching from Google Voice back to
> my cable providers phone in the hope that my conversations will be a 
> little
> more private.
>
> Bob, K8LR, [log in to unmask]
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Magic Jack
>
>
> I put Magic Jack in a couple of months ago.  I took the $99 for two year
> plan.  I think the receive audio is a bit soft, but it isn't worse than 
> tyme
> warner phone, and for the price, I can't complain.
>
> Sometimes I loose the connection and have to redial after an hour long
> conversation.  I think the major variable is the quality of your Internet
> connection.
>
> Free directory assistence for everybody is a good thing.
> You can keep your own number.  You have to dial the full number including
> the area code for every call.
>