From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 17:37:26 PST
To: koontzd@lrcs.loral.com (David Koontz)
Subject: Re: Digital Telephony Bill 1994 (Draft)
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David Koontz writes:
 
> >      (3) Penalties for monitoring radio communications that are not
> >scrambled, encrypted, or non-public.
> >      Section 2511(4)(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
> >deleting the phrase "or encrypted, then--" and inserting the following:
> >          ", encrypted, or transmitted using modulation techniques whose
> >essential parameters have been withheld from the public with the intention
> >essential parameters have been withheld from the public with the intention
> >of preserving the privacy or such communication, then--".
> 
> Is this meant to say it is okay to monitor encrypted communications?
 
No. Encrypted communications are still as protected as they ever were.


--Mike