Concerning _1997 RS catalog (Canada)_, Roland Stiner said to Guy Houle in 
SCANRADIO:
 RS> Well, that's my point, there is no law in Canada that forbids
 RS> cellular monitoring.  So, why does RS block cellular in the scanners
 RS> that it sells up there?
IIRC, since 1994, Radio Shack no longer builds (or has built for them) 
scanners that are cellular capable and "blocks" that ability when selling the 
scanners in the States.  Instead, they have scanners built that don't have 
that capability in the first place.
Why?  Well, any change small enough to be made during production runs that 
would allow a fully-capable version to be made for Canada and a "crippled" 
version for the States would be a change that could be reversed by a 
competent hacker.  Even a change in programming wouldn't help.  A Stateside 
hacker would just call a friend up North and have a Canadian CPU shipped 
wn.
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