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From: migod@csri.toronto.edu (Mike Godfrey)
Subject: Re: solution to car phone problem (was Re: car fone)
Message-ID: <1989Sep5.203417.12095@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <1989Aug30.104132.22252@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <150005@teecs.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 89 00:34:18 GMT

I wrote:
> Simple solution:
>
>	Wire the car phone so that the line is disabled when the
>	car is in motion.   

oneill@teecs.UUCP (Sean O'Neill) responded:
> GET REAL!  How long will it take the average electronics diddler to actually 
> figure a way around this "Simple solution"??  Two, three minutes *TOPS* !


Fine, so we'll introduce legislation to make such diddling illegal.  
And anyone caught talking on the phone while their car is moving is 
subject to stiff fines .

How many fuzz-busters do you think are out there since they were made 
illegal?  Some certainly, but a lot less which is much better than "a lot", 
surely.

-- 
Mike Godfrey			    "Well, that's the sort of blinkered, 
Dept of Comp Sci, UofT               philistine pig-ignorance I've come to
migod@csri.toronto.edu 		     expect from you non-creative garbage."