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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:34:24 GMT
- From: kevinc@ups.com (Kevin C. Castner)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Organization Warns Lawyers Against Using Cellular Phones
- Message-ID: <telecom12.903.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: UPS Research & Development
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 903, Message 6 of 15
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-
- Paul S. Sawyer (paul@unhtel.unh.edu) wrote:
-
- > Eavesdropping on radio communications isn't easy to do, but it
- > can happen.
-
- > [Moderator's Note: The only thing wrong with that story is the last
- > paragraph: Cellular eavesdropping is quite easy to do and is does
- > happen a lot. PAT]
-
- My understanding is that it is illegal to scan the frequencies used by
- the cellular carriers (or at least against FCC reqs), as well as the
- frequencies used by cordless phones (49.7 MHz, but don't quote me on
- that). The limiting factor is if any portion of the call goes over a
- landline, then the entire call is considered to be secured and immune
- from tapping, etc. without a warrant.
-
- If this is the case, I don't understand how this evidence can be
- introduced into court.
-
- If I'm wrong, please let me know what the latest legal wranglings on
- the issue are.
-
-
- Kevin C. Castner kevinc@ups.com
- Unix Administrator United Parcel Service
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Well as pointed out before, they are not stupid
- people and would not attempt to introduce illegally obtained evidence
- in court. They would simply use the illegal evidence to give them a
- starting point for collecting evidence on their own. If I hear you
- say over the phone 'so and so would be a good witness' then I won't
- ever admit I heard you say it ... I'll simply go see so and so before
- you have a chance to get there. Merest coincidence that I happened to
- think of it also ... :) PAT]
-
-