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David wrote:
"Dream on. Those boogers are a constant source of entertainment. Unless it's called ''digital'' they aren't encryted." I never said there were none left to hear, just that newer ones being sold have been using spread-spectrum for at least 6 or 7 years already. |
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So, what did you end up with Coon: the pussy, or a sore elbow?
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Dr. Artaud NoSuchThing @Notreal.com wrote: It is against the law to monitor cordless phone frequencies. The Federal Communications Commission (www.fcc.gov) ruled that as of April 1994 no radio scanners may be manufactured or imported into the U.S. that can pick up frequencies used by cellular telephones, or that can be readily altered to receive such frequencies. (47 CFR Part 15.37 You've got your wires crossed. Cell phones are not cordless phones. Cell phones operated under a different part of the regulations (Part 22?) than cordless phones which are under the license free regulations (Part 15). Since there are numerous part 15 devices like baby monitors and wireless speakers that operate on the same frequencies using the same modulation schemes as the cheaper cordless phones, there's no protection. Mark Zenier Washington State resident |
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(Mark Zenier) wrote in
: Hi Mark, as always, the following states emphatically that listening to cordless phones is illegal, then opens the issue to ambiguity in its closing paragraph. You have got to love law. The following was from the listed link. Regards, Dr. Artaud http://grove-ent.com/LLawbook.html "Initially, cordless telephone conversations were not included in the definition of an "electronic communication." That anomaly has now been removed. After making a blanket prohibition of intercepting all electronic (i.e., radio) transmissions, the statute lists the exceptions. The first exception is that it is legal to listen to all radio transmissions which are "readily accessible to the general public." This term used to be defined in the statute to mean radio signals which are (1) not encrypted, scrambled, carried on a subcarrier or other signal subsidiary to a radio transmission; (2) not transmitted over a common carrier communications system (such as the phone company); (3) not special transmissions such as point-to-point private relay transmissions for the broadcast services, not meant for reception by the general public. However, on October 25, 1994, Public Law 103-414 was enacted. This law amended the ECPA to provide equal treatment to cordless telephone conversations as cellular ones. However, it also amended the definition of "readily accessible to the general public" to exclude all "electronic communications." As noted above, electronic communications include virtually all radio communications. And so, as the law now stands, there is virtually no radio communication that is "readily accessible to the general public." In essence, the lawmakers have closed up tight this most useful exception to the general rule. The federal government has cracked down hard on radio listening. At this point the only legal listening outside the broadcast bands is: (a) a communication relating to ships, aircraft, vehicles or persons in distress; (b) a broadcast by any governmental, law enforcement, civil defense, private land mobile or public safety communications system, including police and fire; (c) transmissions on the amateur bands, citizens band or general mobile radio services as well as any marine or aeronautical communications system; (d) satellite transmissions of cable programming as long as the transmission is not encrypted, there is no monetary gain by the viewer, and there is no marketing system available (meaning no one is selling the rights to view the programming via satellite). (e) a radio transmission which is causing interference with any lawfully operating station (including ham radio operators), or is causing interference with any consumer electronic equipment, to the extent necessary to identify the source of the interference. What if you are tuning around your general coverage receiver and come upon something not contained on the federal "approved listening" list? In order for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. 2511 to be successful, the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the listener intentionally intercepted a protected transmission. Since even attorneys are unsure what frequencies are off limits, how can the government hope to prove that a listener who happens upon one of these federally-legislated minefields in the radio spectrum, actually intended to do so? In fact, the Senate Judiciary Committee report on the ECPA states flat out that "the inadvertent interception of a protected communication is not unlawful under this Act." (Senate Report 99-541) Case law appears to bear this out. In United States v. Townsend, 987 F.2d 927 (2nd Cir. 1993), the court said that the word "intentionally" in the ECPA means that a jury must find that the defendant acted purposefully and the defendant's act must have been the product of the defendant's conscious objective, rather than a product of mistake or accident." You've got your wires crossed. Cell phones are not cordless phones. Cell phones operated under a different part of the regulations (Part 22?) than cordless phones which are under the license free regulations (Part 15). |
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Every once in a while when I am listening to my Radio Shack scanner
radio (it is not modified in any kind of a way,it is just like it was when it came from a Radio Shack store) I hear a man (sometimes it is a lady's voice I hear) or a wonan dialing a pager messenger service in the Jackson area and they leave a message on that pager service.What most people do not know is,U.S.Citizens have the Right to listen to any and all electronic messages.Regardless of what the so-called fcc says.Anything I hear on my radios,my computers,my telephones,my tv sets,my Radio Shack Amplified Listerner devices or anything else I own,I have a perfect Right to listen to! cuhulin |
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:00:27 -0500, cuhulin wrote:
Every once in a while when I am listening to my Radio Shack scanner radio (it is not modified in any kind of a way,it is just like it was when it came from a Radio Shack store) I hear a man (sometimes it is a lady's voice I hear) or a wonan dialing a pager messenger service in the Jackson area and they leave a message on that pager service.What most people do not know is,U.S.Citizens have the Right to listen to any and all electronic messages.Regardless of what the so-called fcc says.Anything I hear on my radios,my computers,my telephones,my tv sets,my Radio Shack Amplified Listerner devices or anything else I own,I have a perfect Right to listen to! cuhulin Unfortunately that is not true any more.... -- Korbin Dallas The name was changed to protect the guilty. |
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OH YES! it is TRUE too! Anything that comes on my radios that is
interesting to me,I AM GOING TO LISTEN! cuhulin |
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