A Radio Shack manager told me that the Radio Shack digital scanner, $499.99,
will decode any encrypted transmission. I asked what it had that others
didn't and he said "just the way their made".???


"The Orchardist" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:23:53 -0600, "Charles Duncan"
wrote:

If they use encryption you can decode if you find a member of the
department
who is willing to give up the code?

Cops' don't know the code.

It's set by the radio techs with a key loader.

also depends on the system and radio. If you aren't on the "good guy"
list, then your radio won't be recognized by the system and won't
receive decoded messages.

Oh, and not to mention that it's also a FEDERAL FELONY under ECPA.




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Charles Duncan ...

^ A Radio Shack manager told me that the Radio Shack digital
^ scanner, $499.99, will decode any encrypted transmission.

You've been misinformed. A digital receiver will convert (decode) a digital
signal to expose the content, often analog audio. But if the content, perhaps
analog audio, has been encrypted, then you're left something useless to you.

This message will be encoded by my newsreader and encoded further by the
sockets interface, then it will be decoded by any computer receiving it. If I
were to encrypt this message before sending it, perhaps with PGP, it would
still be twice encoded and decoded and you would be left with an encrypted
message that is useless to you.

The receiver you refer to cannot decode all types of digital information and
it cannot decrypt anything.

Frank

Yep, he is a confirmed ****** then. Still, I guess that you cannot expect
the useless brain deads that work in shops like that to know much. It will
allow you to monitor some of the digital signals (but definitely NOT all of
them), however it will not and cannot decode encrypted communications. The
****** seems to be severely confused between digital signals, and
encryption.
Still, what else can you expect I guess - not much chance of trying to
explain the difference to the brain dead, so I guess that you didn't bother
(these days I wouldn't - I have given up)




Matt

"Charles Duncan" wrote in message
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A Radio Shack manager told me that the Radio Shack digital scanner,
$499.99,
will decode any encrypted transmission. I asked what it had that others
didn't and he said "just the way their made".???


"The Orchardist" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:23:53 -0600, "Charles Duncan"
wrote:

If they use encryption you can decode if you find a member of the
department
who is willing to give up the code?

Cops' don't know the code.

It's set by the radio techs with a key loader.

also depends on the system and radio. If you aren't on the "good guy"
list, then your radio won't be recognized by the system and won't
receive decoded messages.

Oh, and not to mention that it's also a FEDERAL FELONY under ECPA.




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A Radio Shack manager told me that the Radio Shack digital scanner,
$499.99,
will decode any encrypted transmission. I asked what it had that others
didn't and he said "just the way their made".???

He's a moron. It's just the way they're made.

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.