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- From: wb9omc@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)
- Subject: Re: What's your tattle level?
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:30:41 GMT
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- mikebo@timesink.chi.il.us (Michael Borowiec) writes:
-
- >equipment to de-multiplex and listen to these channels. By your standard
- >these transmissions are fair game because they are not encrypted.
-
- I think you are talking (in part) apples and oranges here.
- Anyone who goes out and spends beaucoups bucks on that sort of
- equipment is obviously there for more than just casual listening -
- probably to obtain economically viable information. Or in otherwords,
- he is breaking several laws already WITHOUT the ECPA or the stupid
- scanner ban.
-
- The spirit of laws defending citizens' rights is good. The
- implementation - taking away our rights to a segment of the spectrum -
- sets a horrid precedent for any special interest group to do likewise.
-
- >than anything else. Are we a bunch of busybodies who want to eavesdrop
- >on phone calls? Maybe we're only creeps who get off listening to the
- >neighbors' baby monitor? (That's legal...) Sorry, I find your position
- >indefensible and so do the majority of lawmakers (who tend to use
- >cellular more than almost anyone).
- >- Mike
-
- Mike, that is what *I* call conflict of interest. For them to make
- such a law because it affects *them*, rather than considering how it affects
- the REST of the folks that they (supposedly) represent is absolutely
- indefensible. The fact that it happens points out the corruptness of
- our congresscritters.
-
- To me it is indefensible to expect ALL citizens to give up their
- rights to listening to X segment of the spectrum so that some special interest
- group can have some alleged privacy. It should be incumbant upon those
- who transmit in that spectrum to encrypt or scramble any communications
- they do not want the whole world to hear, or DON'T use it!
-
- As an Amateur Radio Operator, would you discuss intimate details
- of your life on, say, 80 meters? I seriously doubt it. Would you discuss
- an important business deal there? Probably not.
-
- If the cellular industry had not outright LIED to their clients
- in the first place by telling them that their communications were
- secure we'd never have had this problem. If they had not lobbied their
- good buddies in congress, we would not have had this problem. And if
- they had been remotely concerned with anyones "rights", there would be
- encryption in place NOW rather than a bad law which ought to be overturned
- in court.
-
- Duane
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