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From: robert@uop.edu (Fred Flintstone)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Does the ECPA have teeth yet ?
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Date: 20 Jan 88 06:56:05 GMT
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Keywords: ECPA jail sentence felony ham swl  It has now been one year since it became illegal (a felony in many


It was mentioned that drug dealers had been arrested for misuse of
the law...

I am not aware of that particular case, but I was under the impression
that the communications act of 1934 covers such an offense, if it is
say, using a scanner to intercept, and thereby locate police traffic
pertaining to "your" crime.

Locally we had some dealers arrested, but they were arrested for being
dealers due to a ham that turned them in, seems the geek-dealer was
sitting by the pool, making his deals over his CORDLESS PHONE.

:-)

Some people, they just don't know!