And tangentially related, it was much easier for anyone to eavesdrop on your conversations. When it rained, I could pick up my phone and hear conversations fro

And tangentially related, it was much easier for anyone to eavesdrop on your conversations. When it rained, I could pick up my phone and hear conversations from my neighbor on my landline and talk to them without calling. Not to mention if you were in the same house, you could surreptitiously here conversations by just picking up the phone or getting a device from radio shack that didn’t have a microphone, that you could plug in to another phone outlet. With analog cellular, you could also buy a receiver from Radio Shack and hack it to pick up the unencrypted signals from cell phones.