Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) Newsgroups: net.ham-radio,net.dcom,net.video Subject: Re: Listen to phone calls on your tvro Message-ID: <1229@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 17:04:15 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1229 Posted: Wed Sep 4 17:04:15 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Sep-85 03:35:38 EDT References: <125@hydra.UUCP> <777@vortex.UUCP> <338@nicmad.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.ham-radio:3170 net.dcom:1253 net.video:1465 > In article <777@vortex.UUCP> lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes: > >It should be pointed out that monitoring telephone conversations > >from either terrestrial or satellite links would almost certainly > >be construed, under current law, as wiretapping. This is, > >I believe, a federal crime (probably a felony), and not to be > >taken lightly. > > > >--Lauren-- > > Fortunately it is not wiretapping. Since it is on the open airwaves, > a different set of rules take over. You can receive the signal, you can > listen to it, but you cannot tell anyone the contents of what you heard. > It is exactly like listening to police/fire. You can, but don't tell > anyone the contents of the communications. > -- Only partially right, Captain Video. Wiretapping is different from the communications laws (by the way, is the topic of discussion and your point is only one of the opinions on how that law works). By your own reasoning if I put a big coil around the the telephone line coming out of your house and inductively pick up your signal, then it isn't wire tapping either, which is not the case.