17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Fri, 27 Jan 1995, beacher wrote:
Cunningham said Mitnick is a ham radio enthusiast and is believed to use a scanner to keep track of police in the area where he is hiding.
I do hope that he was called an Amateur ("ham") because he really is one (and what is the relevance?), and not because he happened to have a scanner... There's been lots of media reports equating scanner-listeners with Amateur radio enthusiasts (and the media wonder why they are despised). -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) | dave@esi.com.au | VK2KFU @ VK2AAB.NSW.AUS.OC | PGP 2.6 Opinions expressed are mine. | E7 FE 97 88 E5 02 3C AE 9C 8C 54 5B 9A D4 A0 CD