CDR: Re: police IR searches to Supremes

[Sampo A Syreeni]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Richard Fiero wrote:

>One could argue that all electromagnetic radiation is in the public
>domain and receivable. However it is illegal to have equipment capable
>of receiving cell phone conversations because the rights of the
>telephone company and the rights of the conversants could be violated.

That is one part of legislation I find completely unbelievable. I view it as
a case of people having far too high expectations of privacy which shouldn't
be kept up artificially.

Sampo Syreeni <decoy at iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university