Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!RUTGERS.EDU!ames!pyramid!ncc!lyndon
From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <1427@ncc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 13:09:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncc.1427
Posted: Fri May 29 13:09:51 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 04:09:23 EDT
References: <8705280051.AA11594@reed.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Distribution: world
Organization: Nexus Computing Corp.,  Edmonton, AB
Lines: 20
Approved: telecom@buit1.bu.edu
Summary: Not necessarily a question of legality


>      While watching the Indianapolis 500 on TV this Sunday, I saw
> them do a feature on one of the car crews that were using a celluar
> phone to talk to the driver on the track.  
> [...]  This seemed really strange to
> me until I realized that the use of the phone meant that no one
> could legally listen in on their conversations.
>       Everyday someone discovers a new way to use that law.

It has *always* been illegal to divulge the contents of any non-amateur
or non-broadcast transmission. This has never stopped anyone from
listening in to private communications, and I doubt that the new law
will make have any significant impact on this practice.

I think the primary motivation for using cellular is that it is
*technically* much more difficult (for the average person) to intercept
a transmission.

Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM
pyramid!ncc!lyndon  || pyramid!ncc!lyndon@sun.com