Re: Digital Telephony Bill 1994 (Draft)

[koontzd@lrcs.loral.com (David Koontz )]

>      (3) Penalties for monitoring radio communications that are not
>scrambled, encrypted, or non-public.
>      Section 2511(4)(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
>deleting the phrase "or encrypted, then--" and inserting the following:
>          ", encrypted, or transmitted using modulation techniques whose
>essential parameters have been withheld from the public with the intention
>essential parameters have been withheld from the public with the intention
>of preserving the privacy or such communication, then--".

Is this meant to say it is okay to monitor encrypted communications?