From: Gina Miller (echoz@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed May 12 1999 - 15:50:07 MDT
Law enforcement agencies are moving to trucked commnication systems and
radio scanners will incorporate trunk tracking as well. The H.R. 514,
"Wireless Privacy Enhancement Act of 1999" will make it illegal for
manufactureres to sell such equipment, or to sell any devices that "convert
protected paging service transmissions to alphanumeric text." This bill is
what the Feds are offering to enhance our privacy in lieu of strong
encryption systems that they would have difficulty cracking. In other words:
they can listen to us, but we can't listen to them. The bill is currently
winding its way through Congress and will almost certainly become a law
unless people make a fuss. You can read the bill at:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.R.514
If you're incensed enough to write your representative but forgotten who
they are go to:
http://www.congress.nw.dc.us/c-span/elecmail.html
An anti H.R. site
http://www.dimensional.com/~efricha/HR514/
Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
Nanotechnology Industries
Web Page
http://www.nanoindustries.com
E-mail
echoz@hotmail.com
Alternate E-mail
nanogirl@halcyon.com
"The science of nanotechnology, solutions for the future."
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