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House commerce committee votes to ban radio-decryption gear
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Wed May 17 23:40:03 2000
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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 22:14:53 -0400
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36401,00.html
House Reps Ban Wireless Decoding
by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
3:30 p.m. May. 17, 2000 PDT
WASHINGTON -- Americans may no longer buy radio receivers that decode PCS
cellular or pager transmissions, a House panel said Wednesday.
The House Commerce Committee also voted to make it a crime to sell electronic
gadgets that can "decode encrypted radio transmissions for the purposes of
unauthorized interception."
The criminal penalties, which were attached to a tax harmonization bill,
expand existing law, which already bans the sale of devices that can
intercept analog cellular conversations.
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