quoted 19 lines This is essentially US law, but there are a couple of refinements.>This is essentially US law, but there are a couple of refinements.
>A lot of old scanners belong to members of the public and I
>believe that they were grandfathered in, i.e. not confiscated. It
>is now illegal to manufacture and sell scanners. To handle the
>situation of the old scanners, it is legal for the owner to use
>them under some circumstances, but they can't legally share the
>information with anyone else. Basically with electronic
>communications, at the very least, you can't share it, but unless
>you are sure otherwise, don't even bother listening.
>
>An important telecommunications bill was killed in the US Senate by a
>combination of special interests objecting to funding provisions and
>Republican obstruction of other legislation (filibustering election
>finance reform). It had some good and interesting safeguards of
>privacy of electronic information such as protecting bank card PINs
>and transaction codes. These safeguards had been endorsed by the
>EFF.
>
>Alan.
I didn't know that it is now illegal to manufacture and sell scanners. Are you
sure this is right?
Even if this is the case there are lots of ways around the ban. I remember when
I wanted to purchase a wiretap device that was illegal in the USA all I had to
do was purchase a cheap bus ticket to Canada (I live in Seattle) and go into the
store and say it was for export. (Even though you are not supposed to import
this item into Canada either.)
--Brandon
bworrell@cclink.fhcrc.org Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center