What's the number 1 thing you've learned from fillums?

If you want to listen in on someones telephone conversations unscrew the mouthpiece and drop a small coin shaped piece of metal across the terminals. It will always fit perfectly and enable you to hear both sides of the conversation. Dont forget to record everything on a 1950's vintage open reel tape recorder although you wont really need it because The subject will almost immediately call someone and start discussing whatever it is youre interested in and you wont have to sit through hours/days of conversation on mundane irrelevant topics.

It never rains in America without lightning as well. However the electricity supply rarely fails during a thunderstorm (unless one happens to be staying in a large old house when its almost a certainty) The lights will always flash on and off a couple of times to warn of their impending failure and although the supply is usually restored surprisingly quickly theres always enough time for at least one person to be murdered.

The King of Moo wrote: »

Any task from the most simple to the most complex can be accomplished by rapidly pressing a random selection of keys on the keyboard.

A computer with a modem can be used to hack into any other computer in the world with the biggest difficulty being an easily guessed/hacked password.

Regardless how sensitive their content or function may be all computers owned by the CIA and US military are inexplicably connected to the regular public telephone network to facilitate such hacking.