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What is a wiretapper?

What is a wiretapper? Here are some definitions.

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  1. A person who installs or monitors wiretaps.
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Richard Fryant had worked as a wiretapper for the New York Telephone Company, tasked with eavesdropping on his own colleagues, and now took freelance assignments in the Queen City.
Wiretapper exists in system and wiretaps on intermediate nodes.
Or take the case of John Broady, an audacious wiretapper who in the mid-1950s set up an eavesdropping nest at an apartment in Midtown Manhattan.
Finally, for a government wiretapper, there was no continuity: with firms rising and falling, a wiretap might go down with the company.
In early 1924, Olmstead was approached by Richard Fryant, the freelance wiretapper who had been hunkered down in the basement of the Henry Building, listening to Olmstead's lines.
A wiretapper could even choose to target the phone calls of a company's general counsel talking to an outside law firm, or the CEO talking to his counterpart at another company.

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