On 11 Dec 96 07:55pm, Bruce Clark wrote to Holger Skurbe:
 HS>> CORRECTION: It is illegal to listen to ANY phone conversations. Anyway
 HS>> you cannot, by federal law, divulge ANY intercepted communications
 HS>> that are person to person (vs. broadcast radio).
 BC> Once the phone conversation leaves wireline and cell
 BC> frequencies then it is no longer illegal to listen to it,
 BC> no matter how much YOU or I might object to it.
 BC> From the accounts I've read, the courts decided that it's NOT
 BC> illegal to listen to the radio traffic in the 46 to 49 MHz
 BC> band. If you don't want to be listened to you don't use
 BC> cordless phones. It is illegal, as you say to use that info.
 BC> Lot's of users of cordless phones WISH it were illegal,
 BC> apparently you're included on that list. Same goes for the
 BC> 900 MHz cordless phone area. If you're not using a phone
 BC> that is digital or/and encrypted, then don't say anything
 BC> you don't want heard, cause no telling who's listening.
 Sorry, Bruce, the ECPA, as ammended, *does* make it illegal to listen to
 cordless phones. No matter *what* the frequency used is.
 You can find this at your local library: check for the ECPA, and all
 ammendments. It's there.
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