Another restriction on technology - cell and cordless scanning now a felony

[Major Variola (ret)]

Nice post,

Could this be warped into affecting wardriving for 802.11b connections?
The basestation's emissions could be considered 'private' even though
they're
not.  The traffic could contain unencrypted voice packets, too.



At 03:15 PM 7/16/02 -0400, Dave Emery wrote:
> The House just passed the Cyber Electronic Security Act last night
>(7/15/02) by an overwhelming margin of 385-3.
>
> What this does is change the penalty for the first offense of
>intercepting an unscrambled and unencrypted radio communication that is

>not supposed to be listened to (eg AMPS cellular calls, commercial
>pagers, cordless phones, common carrier communications) for hobby
>purposes (eg not a tortuous or illegal purpose or for direct or
indirect
>commercial advantage or private commercial gain) from a misdemeanor
(one
>year or less prison time) to a federal FELONY (5 years prison time).
>
> And further this changes the status of the specific offense of
>listening to a cell call, cordless call, a pager, or a public land
>mobile radio service communication (eg a telephone interconnect) from a

>minor offense for which one can be fined a maximum of $500 to a federal

>FELONY for which one can be imprisoned for up to 5 years.