[Cryptography] Tempest and limits on receiving

[Bill Frantz]

On 4/4/17 at 12:34 PM, wilson at math.wisc.edu (Bob Wilson) wrote:

>There are quite a few receivers that say they do that, until 
>you look at the footnote saying that reception of certain 
>frequencies is disabled, because the disabled frequencies are 
>used by some cell 'phones.

I think this "law" is a FCC regulation. It exists because some 
people strenuously objected to having recordings of their phone 
conversations publicized. Many of them were people whose names 
you might recognize. WEP was also a later response to this problem.

Cheers - Bill

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