12 Sep
2002
12 Sep
'02
10:12 p.m.
At 11:35 PM 12/09/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Quothe John Allain, from writings of Thu, Sep 12, 2002
at 10:28:28PM -0400:
If I remember correctly, when amateur radio operators were taken off the
air during WWII their transmitters had to be rendered "inoperative" so an
enemy agent couldn't take them over and use them for his nefarious activities.
Cheers
Charlie Fox
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There's probably a good story here, but one
that I personally
haven't lived... For those of us who shop at Hamfests, you
may have heard that owning and operating certain types of legal
radio equipment before WWII apparently became illegal after it started.
Illegal to own it? Zog! When are we going to start hearing that
owning computers with mass storage devices, computers designed to use
mass storage devices, or mass storage devices, are illegal acts? How
soon before the illegal posession of "controlled devices" will be as
serious, or more serious, a crime as the illegal posession of
"controlled substances?" Next, it will be illegal (or at least easier
to get caught... it's probably already illegal) to open up one's cable
TV converter box to check for hidden microphones and cameras.