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Originally Posted by Beaky
Now at what point does it become illiegal to intersept an encrypted message? Is it after the message has been encrypted or is it when the sender keys up on the input (Radio to repeter?). He is intending to send a message on what he knows to be and encrypted talk group... and somone is listening to the input to the repeater? Is that message considered part of the encrypted message? Is that "safe" to monitor?
I've always heard it is against the law to listen to Military encrypted and other encrypted messages...where is that law on paper? Anyone know any links to this topic
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I would think that the encrypted traffic is fair game until encryption is applied. If you have a program that runs the received traffic through an algorithm to defeat the encryption then that is illegal. I'm not an attorney and this is only my personal opinion, but receiving unencrypted traffic does not sound like a violation of the law. I'm looking for the exact law, but am having little luck, if anyone can post it I would like to read it for myself.
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/217103.pdf