John says:
Wireless is a horse of a different color. IANAL but
the last time I looked, there was no federal law
against intercepting most wireless signals, but you
were (generally) not allowed to disclose the contents
to anyone else.
No longer, if it ever was. It's a crime, as evidenced by the
Will Rodger wrote:
John says:
Wireless is a horse of a different color. IANAL but
the last time I looked, there was no federal law
against intercepting most wireless signals, but you
were (generally) not allowed to disclose the contents
to anyone else.
No longer, if it ever was. It's a
At 4:57 PM -0500 3/5/03, John S. Denker wrote:
Tim Dierks wrote:
In order to avoid overreaction to a nth-hand story, I've attempted to
locate some primary sources.
Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines:
http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/9th/case/9955106pexact=1
[US v Councilman:]
John says:
Next time, before disagreeing with someone:
a) Please read what he actually wrote, and
b) Don't quote snippets out of context.
Three sentences later, at the end of the paragraph that
began as quoted above, I explicitly pointed out that
cellphone transmissions are a more-protected
Tim Dierks wrote:
In order to avoid overreaction to a nth-hand story, I've attempted to
locate some primary sources.
Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines:
http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/9th/case/9955106pexact=1
[US v Councilman:]
At 02:30 PM 3/5/2003 -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
From: Somebody
Technically, since their signal speed is slower than light, even
transmission lines act as storage devices.
Wire tapping is now legal.
The crucial difference, from a law enforcement perspective, is how hard
it is to get the
At 01:39 PM 2/27/2003 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 9:01 AM -0500 on 2/27/03, BNA Highlights wrote:
WIRETAP ACT DOES NOT COVER MESSAGE 'IN STORAGE' FOR SHORT
PERIOD
BNA's Electronic Commerce Law Report reports that a
federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that the federal
Wiretap Act
* Tim Dierks [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-03-02 12:27]:
This would seem to imply to me that the wiretap act does not apply to any
normal telephone conversation which is carried at any point in its transit
by an electronic switch, including all cell phone calls and nearly all
wireline calls,
