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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 18:45:57 CST
- From: srcsip!tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
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- Subject: Re: Cellular Snooping and Privacy Issues
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- rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard McCombs KB5SNF) writes:
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- > monty@proponent.com (Monty Solomon) writes:
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- >> After discussing privacy laws, legalities, and realities, Flinn notes
- >> that at Scanners Unlimited in San Carlos, CA, "about a quarter of the
- >> customers are interested in telephone eavesdropping."
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- > I wonder if sales have increased since it will soon be illegal to sell
- > receivers that still include cellular (such as the Icom R100), also I
- > wonder if the new scanners will no longer be easily modifiable to
- > receive cellular?
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- According to the debate raging in alt.privacy, it will be illegal to
- import or manufacture equipment capable of receiving or easily
- modified so that it can receive those frequencies used by cellular.
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- Greg
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