[IP] Re: More Silliness: Congressman Wants to Ban "Silent" Cell Phone Cameras

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Jon Adams <n7uv.jon@gmail.com>
Date: January 29, 2009 3:27:51 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: More Silliness: Congressman Wants to Ban  
"Silent" Cell  Phone Cameras

And yet, that rule is still in place, and continues to play havoc with
devices and radio transceivers sold into the US marketplace, even
though all cellular technology is now digital and utterly
un-monitorable by common devices and methods.

The original rule was a triumph of politics over engineering - the law
gave the "flavor" of security because most of the US carriers at the
time were completely embedded in their analog proprietary approaches
while the rest of the world had moved on to GSM or CDMA digital
technology. Making it illegal to listen was way cheaper than actually
making the system secure.

Cheers - Jon


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:59 PM, David Farber <dave@farber.net> wrote:
> remember the rule against selling scanner that detect police band,  
> well it
> did not work either  djf
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