[Scan-DC] Cell Phones/Cordless Phones

[William D. Rossiter III]

According to my understanding, any person can listen in on cordless phone
conversations by themselves as long as they (1) do not record the
conversation, and (2) do not divulge the contents of any phone conversation
to anyone who does not own the scanner.

Also according to my understanding, listening to any cell phone frequencies,
or even owning a scanner that is capable of doing so, is ILLEGAL.

Please correct me if I am wrong on any of these laws.

My question is, why does the FCC care so much about cell phone privacy
rather than cordless phone privacy.  If one is capable of listening to cell
phones, they will hear random calls of people they dont even know (some will
be hundreds of miles away).  And now a days, if your scanner is capable of
listening to cells, one will only hear a few conversations because most
people use digital trunked cells.

All I am saying is, if a criminal really wanted to get personal information
such as credit cards, passwords, bank accounts, etc., it would be a whole
lot easier to get the info from cordless rather than cell.

I know that this is a touchy subject, and it could possibly offend some of
the SCAN-DC members, but I'd really like to know what people think about all
of this nonsense.

Also, is the FCC planing on making any further rules on cells/cordless
phones in the future?

Reminder:  I don't want to start any flame wars, I just want to know what
people think.