Newt's phone calls
Bill Frantz
frantz at netcom.com
Thu Jan 16 11:00:51 PST 1997
At 7:07 PM -0800 1/14/97, Eric Murray wrote:
>Clay Olbon II writes:
>> I have a problem with making it illegal to listen to parts of the
>> electromagnetic spectrum. Seems sort of unnatural.
>
>I think that blowing your mouth off about what you've heard
>by scanning cellular traffic is what's illegal. Or more illegal
>than merely listening anyhow.
The 1935 communication act made it illegal to pass on what you had heard
when listening to certain radio services. Listening was OK. Telling
others wasn't.
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