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 Oh, and not to mention that it's also a FEDERAL FELONY under ECPA.
 
 
 Oh, and not to mention that it's also a FEDERAL FELONY under ECPA.
 
 
 how can it be a federal felony under the ECPA when you're liscened to listen to
 it???
 
 It was in the newspaper here some years ago, (but the ECPA was already in
 effect then also) that the local police department here was going to use such
 encryption full-time where the public can't hear them on their scanners unless
 they're liscened by the local police department to do so.  for a fee, of course
 that the individuals of the public who want to listen have to pay the police
 department to do so.
 
 The paper did report something about the police saying that background checks
 would be done to make sure the individuals of the public applying to listen
 aren't criminals, and that only members of the public who aren't criminals
 would be given a liscence to listen and the readio equipment needed to listen
 (provided by the police department for a monthly fee to listen).
 
 and yes, this is in the U.S. and was reported way before 9-11 ever happened, so
 it's NOT because of homeland security or the patriot act.
 
 yet according to you, the police giving you the radio equipment to listen to
 them and charging you a monthly fee for you to listen to them, that the police
 giving you permission to listen to them,  and then yoou do under permission
 from them is illegal under the ECPA act according to you, even though the
 police give you a liscence to listen also.
 
 
 
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