On 15 Dec 96 10:34pm, Bill Newman wrote to Glenn Fetty:
 BF>>  Again:
 BF>>         IT'S ILLEGAL (BY THE ECPA) TO LISTEN TO CORDLESS PHONES.
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 GF>>  BF>
 GF>>  BF>
 BF>> Bill Funk
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 BF>> ... Did I make myself clear? Good, tell me what I said
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 BN> Are you sure that the ammendment went through? I thought that it
 BN> got vetoed as the radio industry was up in arms about it. It
 BN> would have meant that any scanner would have been illegal as the
 BN> monitoring of police and fire was also in the admentment.
 Why? Why would this make a scanner illegal?
 The law (ECPA) makes it illegal to monitor cell calls, we all agree on that.
 Yet, scanners that do so are *not* illegal.
 So, why would making monitoring cordless phones illegal?
 Remember, there's a huge difference between monitoring something, and having
 the ability to monitor something.
        For those who will bring up the FCC ban on importing, manufacturing,
        etc., scanners capable of tuning to the cell freqs, remember that
        this did *not* make owning scanners that can tune to cell freqs
        illegal.
Bill Funk:  Internet:  skypilot@starlink.com
	    ASCIi User Group: http://www.starlink.com:80/~ascii
... What if there were no hypothetical situations?
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