Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Steve Lemke Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: No More Listening in on Cordless Phones in California Message-ID: <11017@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 17 Aug 90 18:28:04 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 579, Message 4 of 9 john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) writes: >John R. Covert writes: >> The bill also bans manufacture, sale, and possession of any device >> enabling the user to intercept such communications. It provides for >> penalties from one year in county jail to three years in state prison >> with fines of up to $2,500. >...what about continuously tuned radios? >> Don't these people realize that all you need to intercept a cordless >> phone call is another cordless phone? Don't these people realize that there are many, many people who already own scanners which can pick up most cordless phone frequencies (usually around 49 MHz)? Will that make the sale and possession of scanners illegal as well? Steve Lemke, Engineering Quality Assurance, Radius Inc., San Jose Reply to: lemke@radius.com (Note: NEW domain-style address!!)