Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!mimsy!ra!phillips From: phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: I listen to cellular traffic on my VCR ! Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 20:55:47 GMT References: <77415@bu.edu.bu.edu> <970022@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <1130@nih-csl.nih.gov> Distribution: usa Organization: Naval Research Laboratory Lines: 13 In-reply-to: root@alw.nih.gov's message of 27 Mar 91 22:36:10 GMT To clarify: cordless phones are unprotected, legally. The police are even allowed to listen in and use the information as evidence, without a warrant. However, a federal law called the ECPA protects cellular phone transmissions: it is actually illegal to listen to these, using your TV or a scanner. If you are thinking that this doesn't make sense, you are applying the wrong kind of sense. Don't think physical reality, think (legislators + industrial lobbying). -- Lee Phillips phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil phillips@cmf.nrl.navy.mil phillips@lcp.nrl.navy.mil