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to: BILL FUNK
from: GLENN FETTY
date: 1996-12-14 15:06:00
subject: RE: CORDLESSPHONES

 On 12-11-96 Bill Funk wrote to Bruce Clark... 
 
 BF> On 7 Dec 96 07:16pm, Bruce Clark wrote to Milton Grissom: 
 BF>  ... 
 BF>  BC> It's supposed to be illegal to listen to cellphone frequecies, 
 BF>  BC> but legal to listen to the 40-50 MHz area (cordless). And then 
 BF>  BC> there are all these people who are bugging their own homes 
 BF>  BC> with ultra sensitive baby monitor microphones, broadcasting 
 BF>  BC> the sounds from in their house on the 49 MHz area. 
 BF>  
 BF>  No, No, No... 
 BF>  We need to keep up with the times. 
 BF>  The ECPA has been ammended (again), and now cordless phones are as 
 BF> protected 
 BF>  as cell phones. It's illegal to MONITOR them. That means, you aren't 
 BF> allowed 
 BF>  to listen. It's no longer just a case of you can listen but not take 
 BF> any 
 BF>  actions on what you might hear. 
 BF>  
 BF>  Again: 
 BF>         IT'S ILLEGAL (BY THE ECPA) TO LISTEN TO CORDLESS PHONES. 
 BF>  
 BF>  
 BF>  
 BF> Bill Funk 
 BF>  
 BF> ... Did I make myself clear? Good, tell me what I said 
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 BF> (1:114/237) 
 
Hi Bill! 
 
Wasn't that done in 1994?  And the cell-mod scanners banned at the same 
time? 
 
Glenn 
 
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