[FedCom] Re: [WUN] Major change to the ECPA that impacts everyone...

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Dave Emery wrote:

> 	Most significant for many of us, the section 18 USC 2510
> exceptions to the prohibitions on intercepting radio communications in
> 18 USC 2511 are pretty silent about military communications - not
> prohibited, or specifically allowed except as "governmental
> communications".  So it is possible that military comms might be found
> to be illegal to intercept and thus passing around information about
> them a potential felony, even though of course the military has complete
> access to the world's best COMSEC technology and uses for anything
> sensitive.

This is especially annoying since the military doesn't always
use frequencies in designated bands (on HF, at least) and your
radio could "run into them" while scanning ...

... you could commit a felony while scanning through the 19m
broadcast band, without even touching the knobs of your radio.

Another interesting area would be that of internet controllable
radios with streaming audio. What if somebody from the UK would
tune the radio to a phone conversation while somebody from the
USA was listening ?

regards,

Rik
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