From: Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.COM.AU>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 15:46:20 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: hacker search
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On Fri, 27 Jan 1995, beacher wrote:

> Cunningham said Mitnick is a ham radio enthusiast and is believed to use a
> scanner to keep track of police in the area where he is hiding.

I do hope that he was called an Amateur ("ham") because he really is
one (and what is the relevance?), and not because he happened to have
a scanner...

There's been lots of media reports equating scanner-listeners with
Amateur radio enthusiasts (and the media wonder why they are despised).

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