Re: Newt's phone calls

[azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)]

>> >Tapping cellphones is more trouble than tapping wired phones -
>> >they move around, and to tap them from the phone company end
>> >requires taps everywhere that you activate when you know where
>> >somebody is.
>>
>> Exactly. So how come mom&pop with a scanner were able to record BOTH sides
>> of the conversation without interruption? This seems pretty suspicious to
>> me. I think Old Newt was targeted by someone inside the phone company, who
>> was eavesdropping on all of his cell calls.
>>
>
>It is also possible that somewhere in the chain of information between
>mom&pop, the media, and us, the distinction between "cordless phone"
>and cellular phone.  I gather it was a conference call that was
>intercepted.  All it takes is one participant using a cordless phone in
>range of one scanner, and the whole conversation is compromised.
>
>(Someone mentioned that they thought cordless phone intercepts weren't
>illegal the way cellular phone intercepts are.  IANAL, but I recall that
>intercepting both was made illegal by the same legislation.)

Sorry Alan, they were right.  The Supreme Court ruled that unlike cell
phones, cordless phone users could presume privacy.



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