Disclosed is an information protection system of an on-line service
provider connected with customers' telephones through a telephone network
for protecting important personal information of the customers from being
leaked by tapping the customers' telephone lines, which includes an IVR
system for collecting the customers' information-input patterns based on
the customers' information-input signals received from the telephones and
transmitting colored signals similar to the customers' information-input
signals through the telephone network to the customers' telephone lines,
and a control device for generating respective the colored signals
similar to the customers' information-input signals based on the
customers' information-input patterns, the colored signals being
delivered to the IVR system. The IVR system transmits the colored signal
to the customer's telephone line to scramble the customer's personal
information being inputted. An echo canceller is provided to recover the
customers' personal information from the scrambled information. An
information-input pattern analyzer is provided to analyze the
information-input pattern data to determine the customers' respective
mean information-input patterns.