Come on folks, any thing that uses radiation of electromagnetic energy
as a means of propogation can be tapped. It's easier
to tap that than a wire as you don't even need to get physical access.
(Of course you do need to be in range of the radiation, but with
pagers (and cell phones I think) the information is propagated over repeaters
so the range can be pretty large.) The specs for most devices are out there,
so if someone has a mind to listen they can probably build the interception
device. If the information is confidential get devices that scramble and
encrypt, just like when you send something like that over the net.
Alternatively make your messages contain unclassified information to convey
the problem.
-Rachel
KG2J0
At 06:35 PM 10/29/36 +0300, you wrote:
>nuqneH,
>
>> An AP story out of NYC today reported that 3 employees of a small Fort
>> Lee NJ news gathering service (BNN - Breaking News Network) were indicted
>> yesterday under Federal law (using the ECPA, mail fraud and conspiracy
>> statutes) for illegally intercepting pager msgs meant for top officials
>> and police in NYC.
>>
>For creating device from $10 components for 20 minutes?
>
>> Apparently the NYPD has been using alphanumeric pagers for msgs
>> which were too confidential to transmit over the police radio band
>> ( In some communities I've heard of police acquiring cellphones for
>> officers because of all of the active police scanners out there ).
>
>Idiots.
>
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