[TrunkCom] Philadelphia

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:04:43 -0500

don't these people carry cell phones for the purpose of stating the things
they do not want us to hear?  This is pretty ridiculous and i believe that
the city of Philadelphia needs to get off their high horse.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Wallach" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:01 AM
Subject: [TrunkCom] Philadelphia


> The message below is from the philscanner mailing list.  I am offering
> without comment on the reliability of the author (who I do not know), but
> if true is a very major development.  I thought their were court rulings
> upholding the right of the public to monitor public service agencies, and
> holding that encryption solely for the purpose of preventing monitoring of
> non-sensitive (i.e. routine) activities was not in the public interest, if
> not actually unconstitutional.  Anybody know more about the Philadelphia
> issue, or the general use of encryption to intentionally prevent public
> monitoring of all communications?
>
> Michael
>
> --- In PhiladelphiaCitywideRadio@y..., "firefoto3" <firefoto3@y...>
> wrote:
> All interested,
> I heard a rumor the other day, so checked it out. Thru a very
> reliable source, I have learned that Philly is very pissed right now
> at the Bearcat announcement of the new digital scanner. They are now
> involved in a big fight and possibly lawsuit with motorola. Seems
> Motorola promised the city no one would be able to monitor city
> activity with the new system, until that is, Bearcat came out with
> their announcement. What I hear now is....The City wants Motorola to
> pay for upgrading the system to a "FULLY ENCRYPTED" system, so that no
> one can hear the every day traffic of fire or p/d activity. I did
> check this out thru a very reliable source who knows what is going on
> with the system, and it has been confirmed, Philly wants to fully
> encrypt the new 800 system to keep us all out. I guess this will be
> the beginning of some fireworks between the City, Motorola, and the
> Media. This can't be tolerated, and is ridiculous beyond belief.
>
> Brian/PCW-5
>
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