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From: turpin@ut-sally.UUCP (Russell Turpin)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Does the ECPA have teeth yet ?
Message-ID: <10089@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 12:55:56 GMT
References: <1999@frog.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
Lines: 12
Keywords: ECPA jail sentence felony ham swl
Summary: A terrible law.

In article <1999@frog.UUCP>, die@frog.UUCP (Dave Emery) writes:
   It has now been a year that it has been illegal (a felony in many
> cases) under the provisions of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of
> 1986 to listen to (intercept) certain radio communications.   

This is a terrible law. If they do not want me to receive them,
they ought to keep their radio waves out of my back yard. If they
don't want me to understand them, they ought to encrypt their
communication. If I figure out what it says, it wasn't truly
encrypted. 

Russell