Closing the Spycam Sniffer Loophole

Closing the Spycam Sniffer Loophole
Mark Rasch, 2002-04-22

Those cheap wireless video cameras hawked by annoying pop-up ads can be intercepted by anyone with a few hundred dollars and a voyeristic bent. There's no federal law against it, but there should be.

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Mark Rasch (2 replies)

Here we go again -- trying to plug a security hole with legislation instead of technology 2002-04-24
Anonymous

Not if you used encryption. Which you should be doing *anyway*, because a law will only keep the honest people out. It would probably have loopholes for law enforcement anyway, so your police argument doesn't carry weight. I believe it is, for example, still legal for the police to eavesdrop on your cell phone, it just isn't legal for anyone else.

Look at it this way: This law would be like requiring me to brick over my windows because my neighbor doesn't want to buy drapes.

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