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- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Path: sparky!uunet!das.wang.com!wang!dbushong
- From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
- Subject: Re: Privacy -- encrypt/decrypt devices on Wireless phones
- Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:06:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <C01sF2.B1D@wang.com>
- References: <1hpsm7INNp2i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec29.183101.4176@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- rwirthli@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ralph Wirthlin) writes:
-
- >bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Danny Guy Frezza) writes:
-
- >>[son listening] to wireless phone conversations, I became annonyed and
- >>explained to him that it was not right to listen in on private
- >>conversations. I beccame quite upset, knowing the potential of this problem.
-
- This hits close to home.. but for different reasons. My ex-wife calls
- me and threatens various things, and the only way that I can tape
- record the phone call is by talking to her on the cordless and
- simultaneously taping the call from my scanner.
-
- But the good news is that I recently loaned my scanner to my son,
- who lives at her house..... did I mention that *she* has a cordless
- phone too?
-
- >It may not be right, but it certainly is legal as long as the contents
- >of that conversation are not disclosed. Cellular conversations are
-
- Q: Is this really true?
- A: No. Part 15 devices enjoy this much privacy:
-
- (end privacy)
-
- Besides, if it ever comes up (he has chosen to not mention to her that
- he can listen to her phone calls), I think that there are many more
- devious people who are listening... she should worry about them, not
- this little guy.
-
- Dave
- --
- Dave Bushong, Wang Laboratories, Inc. Amateur Radio Callsign KZ1O
- Project Leader, OCR products kz1o@n0ary.#noca.ca.na
- Internet: dbushong@wang.com
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