“...Because of course youknow that the phone lines at the UN are all bugged?” “Are they?” I was still trying to absorb everything.
“Oh, completely. The National Security Agency monitors every word that’s transmitted in the western hemisphere. Every syllable you utter on a phone, every email you ever send, every credit card transaction you ever make – it’s all recorded and stored. The only problem is sorthing through it. At the UN, we’re briefed that the easiest way to get round the eavesdropping is to use disposable mobile phones, try to avoid mentioning specifics, anc change our numbers as often as possible – that way we can at least keep ahead of them. So I told Mike to stop right there. Then I gave him a brand-new number I’d never used before and asked him to call me straight back.”
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A passage from a novel, but the author, Robert Harris, appears to be well informed.