Re: Wireless ISPs

[Bruno Wolff III <bruno () wolff to>]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 22:40:28 +0200,
  "Soderland, Craig" <craig.soderland () sap com> wrote:
> Just to throw my .02 in here wasn't there a FCC ruling (for those of you in the US) that stated that you as a private 
> citizen have the right to receive "any" broadcast radio signal. 
>
> If this is the case then you would in essence have the right to listen in on any un-encrypted radio traffic. 

I think there was such a ruling a long time ago, but it certainly isn't the
case now. Stupid laws have been passed to make people feel more secure
about their communications. People seem to think that laws against snooping
on communications make their communications secure. The US government doesn't
want people to have secure communications so they need to make people feel
safe, otherwise they might demand communication devices using secure end to
end encryption.

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