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echo: scanners
to: JOE NICHOLSON
from: GARY WESTFALL
date: 1997-06-06 09:01:00
subject: Motorola cell phones

 -=> Quoting Joe Nicholson to All <=-
 JN> PRIVACY
 JN> As a telephone user, you have come to assume a certain standard of
 JN> privacy when you place or receive a telephone call via the traditional
 JN> wireline systems.  However, because cellular radiotelephones utilize
 JN> radio transmissions to effect calls, the same standard cannot always
 JN> be assured.  While it is unlawful for an unauthorized person to divulge
 JN> or use any information obtained from intercepting or "listening in on"
 JN> conversations intended for others, you should not assume that your
 JN> conversation is completely secure.  Commercially available scanning
 JN> equipment can permit a third party to monitor the radio channels used
 JN> for cellular telephone calls.
 JN> Finally, a universal warning..  Next step is to get it on a label to
 JN> be placed on the cell phone, rather than on page 82 of the users
 JN> manual! 
 JN> Still, Motorola deserves a lot of credit!
I think this is just an attempt to make the cell phone user get on the 
bandwagon to ban scanners:
           WHAT!  SOMEONE CAN LISTEN TO MY PHONE CALLS!!
Notice that they didn't say that it is already illegal to even *listen*
to the calls.
Gary WA7JAN
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