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Originally Posted by vabiro
Regarding encryption, not having to crack encryption may be helpful. The thing that I would wonder is if the intent of use of a digital modulation was to obsfugate reception. Does that make the perception of reverse engineering analogue to decryption?
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I sure hope not. The practical ramifications would outlaw most P25 capable scanners. I also seem to recall that MDT traffic is now illegal to receive, even though many used to do it, and that it was the MDT traffic that helped to convict the police officers who beat Rodney King.
This is the line we're treading. From a practical perspective, software defined radios will become more and more inexpensive and easy to purchase and program. What will we do when they become simple to build from open source hardware plans, and people write CODEC software all over the world? Governments can legislate whatever they want to, but if you have something like this in the privacy of your own home, how would anyone know that you're listening in?
It's just like DVD ripping. People do it all the time, and as long as you're not trying to sell ripped copies, who cares?
I'll investigate the EFF to see if they're interested in this sort of thing...
Jake Brodsky, AB3A