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Re: hacker search
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).
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