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Subject: Re: Listen to phone calls on your tvro
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 09:48:39 EDT
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    It seems that I remember a case involving a youth who intercepted a 
wireless telephone call from a neighbour. This kid evidently was able to
pick up one side of the wireless phone call because it was above the AM
band. The subject of the calls were arrangements to purchase and distribute
cocaine. This child told his mother, who called the police; which in turn
spent several more days listening. THIS WAS NOT HELD TO BE WIRETAPPING
because the radio facilities were not common carrier but part 15 devices.
They got a conviction (and one of the principal defences of the coke 
trafficker was that it was an illegal wiretap).

     Interception of common carrier telephone facilities, wire, coax,
microwave, satellite, whatever; I am assured by a prominent Washington
attorney, is technically wiretapping.

David Anthony
CDE 
DataSpan, Inc

    P.S. I didn't realize that the satellite calls were SSB/FDM. How many
percent are using FDM and how many TDM-digital?