[FedCom] Re: Interesting comments - secrecy of Civil Air Patrol Freqs

[Blaine Brooks]

> gary <lists at lazygranch.com> wrote:

> IIRC, federal and military frequencies weren't secret until Ronald 
> Reagan made the IRAC classified.

Well said, Gary. In fact, wasn't the GMF available to all
(including Joe Public) until 1984, when as you said,
good 'ole Ronny Boy classified it?

> CAP takes themselves way too seriously.

Agreed, but that is the current state of affairs in todays
terrorist paranoid, nosey, into everybody else's business,
society. All the piddly agencies now that are jumping on the
encryption bandwagon are those that up until this point had
no reason to. Now they have a cloak they can hide behind.
That cloak and reason is the wonderful Patriot Act. A lot
of wasted taxpayer dollars all the name of national security.
Before you know it, they'll probably encrypt comms at the
National Zoo or Botanical Gardens, for fear of Osama
training pandas to be suicide bombers, or fear of
anthrax dust on the roses!!

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Blaine Brooks / Flower Mound,TX USA
http://mysite.verizon.net/resrjsf6/