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From: parnass@ihuxf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: more wireless phone monitoring
Message-ID: <1719@ihuxf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 14:00:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 19 14:00:22 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jan-84 06:47:23 EST
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       Just when you thought the  discussion  of  listening  in	 on
       cordless	telephones was over:

       While looking through an	old  issue  of	Popular	 Communica-
       tions, I	found the following text in the	Letters	to the Edi-
       tor column, page	12, in the October 1982	issue.

	    A Pop Com reader asks:

	     "You mentioned listening in on cordless phones in	the
	    September  issue  of Popular Communications.  That made
	    me wonder if this constitutes wiretapping.	 How  about
	    discussing	listening  in  on  cordless phone conversa-
	    tions?"


	    Tom	Kneitel, the Editor responds:

	     ".....It doesn't require any direct wire connection to
	    monitor  them  so  it  can't be considered wiretapping.
	    However, since these units aren't  FCC  licensed  (they
	    operate  under  Part 15 regulations), they may well	not
	    be covered under the secrecy of  communications  provi-
	    sions (Section 605)	of the Communications Act...."



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Robert S. Parnass, AT&T Bell Laboratories, ihnp4!ihuxf!parnass (312)979-5760