Just the other day I was watching the classic Sydney Pollack thriller "The three days of the Condor", with Robert Redford, and I was thinking they treated NY ph

Just the other day I was watching the classic Sydney Pollack thriller "The three days of the Condor", with Robert Redford, and I was thinking they treated NY phone lines as extremely accessible. At one point, Condor somehow gains access to an exchange to make a call to his opponents, and proceeds to make his line appear like coming from dozens of different addresses, all with a simple tape recorder. (it's also funny how in that movie Redford is supposed to be a hippie ubergeek forced to turn into an action hero - when he's clearly coolness personified)