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I understand you can listen to such material but you can't talk about it. Talking about it *is* a crime.

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Just being Captain Obvious here but...you do know that is a federal crime right? We have a 'leakage' tech that drives our cable systems with all sorts of crazy scanning devices to find RF faults and he has to take great care not to listen in on frequencies such as 900MHZ as we can get in a lot of trouble for that.

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I understand you can listen to such material but you can't talk about it. Talking about it *is* a crime.

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said by JayMan :

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It's only illegal if you hear about the cops about to raid a persons house and you call them to warn them.

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said by Krispy :

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Just being Captain Obvious here but...you do know that is a federal crime right? We have a 'leakage' tech that drives our cable systems with all sorts of crazy scanning devices to find RF faults and he has to take great care not to listen in on frequencies such as 900MHZ as we can get in a lot of trouble for that.

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said by Michael :

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Actually, you are not allowed to divulge anything heard on your scanner and you are also not allowed to use any info heard for personal gain, as I wrote earlier.

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said by Keith :

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I may have saved a life Listening to a scanner(pat's myself on the back) I heard a fire /ambulance call in my building and I preformed A/R reviving the lady As the Fire department arrived so Listening to a scanner can have it's advantages
--edit a fewwwww years ago
the only stupid question is the one not asked
[text was edited by author 2003-07-22 17:13:12]

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A new Ottawa-based website, www.cellphonescanner.com (to which a pornographic ad seemed to have been added late last night), is streaming live cellphone audio onto the Net from a radio that scans cellphone frequencies in the city.

While some might question whether it's ethical, it's entirely legal, and probably a stomach-churning shock to Ottawa's myriad of cellphone users who hadn't thought much about the fact that they're using a fancy two-way walkie-talkie on public airwaves.

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Dave Dawson, director of Regulatory Policy and Planning at Industry Canada, the federal department which regulates radio communications and radio spectrum in Canada, said the law is indefinite in this area.

"The law was intended to stop people from doing this kind of thing for criminal purposes or for commercial theft," said Dawson. "For example, no one shall intercept and make use of or divulge any radio communications interactions.

"But, people are misguided if they think their cellphone conversations are private," said Dawson.

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The www.cellphonescanner.com site is registered officially to Mike Smith at 1337 Main St. in Gloucester, a fictitious address. Efforts to reach the owner were unsuccessful.

The site claims to be "the Internet's first live streaming broadcast of cellular phone conversations" and posts a disclaimer on the privacy issue:

"Under Canadian law it is not illegal to listen to cellular broadcasts, it is however illegal to use any of the information you hear on the radio frequencies for your own personal gain, or for malicious purposes. Here at www.cellphonescanner.com we do not condone this type of activity."

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said by Ian :

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CSIS already records all of your phone and internet traffic to listen to and read, anyway.. Adjusts tin-foil hat..

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said by Michael :

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Would you believe I actually typed in CSE instead of NSE in my previous post? Damn spy agencies trying to protect their identities.

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said by Dark Shoes :

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You're right about nothing being secure, maybe from your neighbour but not the government. If it's electronic then there's a good chance the CSE is monitoring it in some way. Their super-computers are crunching data all the time just like the National Security Agency does in the U.S.

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