[geeks] interesting geek toy

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:15:54PM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
> Thanks to recent legislation (Telecommunications Act of 1996) which
> undermines the normal legal precedent (Communications Act of 1934, IIRC),
> promiscuous listening (e.g.: tcpdump) on radio frequencies is a crime now.
> The cops are supposed to obtain wiretapping orders and whatnot before
> listening to pager traffic; more often than not, they just get the pager
> company to program them a duplicate pager with the same capcode.
> The DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) also adds to this situation,
> making it illegal to circumvent trival encoding / encryption schemes.
> I support the original Act of 1934; methinks it's time to apply a good
> sized LART to the Congress Critters.

AFAIK, its not illegal to *listen*, its just illegal to profit or do
anything with anything you "hear".

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX