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Old 11-28-2001, 02:23 PM   #15
MaggieL
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
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Quote:
Originally posted by sycamore

--People who rely TOO much on their cell phones: People use these phones as their business lines and as their primary private lines...yet the conversations conducted on these phones (as well as cordless phones) are not protected under Federal privacy laws.
Ther are all kinds of cell phone abuse...including "driving under the influence of earwart". But:

It is in fact illegal to intercept a cellphone call. An analog call is easy to intercept. A digital one is much less easy. An old-skool analog 60MHz cordless is not illegal to intercept, but it is illegal to *disclose* what you do intercept. A 400MHz frequency-hopping phone is the dickens to intercept, but it's not illegal--again, unless you *disclose* the intercept.

Now let's talk about open wireless network connections...:-)


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