Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Jeff Crilly N6ZFX Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: No More Listening in on Cordless Phones in California Message-ID: <11619@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 1 Sep 90 00:39:25 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: AMIX Corporation, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 48 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 613, Message 6 of 7 In article <11017@accuvax.nwu.edu> radius!lemke@apple.com (Steve Lemke) writes: 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? I couldn't resist putting my $2 E-10 in. This story is second hand. Apparantly someone "overheard" drug deals on their cordless baby monitor. So they called the police. The police showed up and checked the neighbors, and sure enough, they found the dealer. They arrested him. This happened a few years ago in Spokane, Washington. I wonder if the dealer went to jail. If this incident happened in California today, and the person with the baby monitor called the police, the baby monitor would be confiscated and they would be arrested ;^). I can't beleive California is gonna try to implement such a law. What a waste of taxpayer dollars. Don't they realize that everyone (including drug dealers) already know that you can monitor cordless phone calls from another handset? Does this mean that when my handset rings and I pick it up only to find out that my neighbor got a call and I now hear the conversation, that I must turn myself in with the hope that I can get a light prison sentence because it wasn't intentional? Jeff Crilly (N6ZFX) AMIX Corporation 2345 Yale Street Palo Alto, CA 94306 jeff@amix.com, {uunet,sun}!markets!jeff