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From: ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
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Subject: Re: Neighbor Bugs Family By Eavesdropping
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Date: 12 Dec 89 21:59:47 GMT
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In article <2001@accuvax.nwu.edu> John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com> writes:
>But for someone to intentionally bug their own house (baby monitor),
>put it (unencoded) on the air, and then get angry when someone does
>the inevitable evesdropping, well...

I think it's fair to be a little annoyed at the *impolite* behaviour
of the neighbour, but I agree that I don't think it's illegal.

If you want privacy, go for wires or encryption.  That's one of the
things I'm looking forward to with digital telephony... the ability to
encrypt my conversations.  Straight analog schemes do horrible things
to fidelity and keep getting out of tune.  But once I've got a digital
channel, feeding it through a handy DES chip would keep out most
would-be eavesdroppers.
 
	-Colin