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:
> > 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.
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.
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Received on Fri Sep 13 2002 - 05:12:01 BST