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FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts - 5/21/2009 11:08:11 AM

pahunkboy

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-- LOL, it would appear Term was right! Check out this intrusion into your stuff!

You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it. That’s the upshot of the rules the agency has followed for years to monitor licensed television and radio stations, and to crack down on pirate radio broadcasters. And the commission maintains the same policy applies to any licensed or unlicensed radio-frequency device. “Anything using RF energy /snip

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RE: FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts - 5/21/2009 11:21:53 AM

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PaHunk, I don't have *any* of those things in my house.
I don't even have one of those portable phones that everyone walks around with.

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RE: FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts - 5/21/2009 11:27:59 AM

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This seems like a monumental waste of time, money and effort.

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RE: FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts - 5/21/2009 3:51:07 PM

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How often is this right exercized? Cause folks, there are all kinds of laws on the books that people don't enforce. Unless the FCC is finding massive interference, they aren't going to wander around your neighborhood checking your cell phone. Radio piracy requires big antennas.

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RE: FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts - 5/21/2009 5:21:36 PM

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The FCC has gone after pirate transmitters for decades but surprisingly we're all still here.

And really what experts are alarmed by this? I used to have a Ham license and knew lots of other amateur radios folks and nobody was concerned about the FCC.

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RE: FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts - 5/21/2009 5:45:52 PM

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the electrical fields are not good for the body.

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RE: FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts - 5/21/2009 6:06:28 PM

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Best get rid of your lights, appliances, etc. And live in a screen room.

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RE: FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts - 5/21/2009 6:09:33 PM

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