RE: Amish Teen illegally wiretaps neighbors Phone

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>]

> From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>
> To: "'FunSec [List]'" <funsec () linuxbox org>
> Subject: RE: [funsec] Amish Teen illegally wiretaps neighbors Phone
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:53:21 -0500
>
> The kid got off a lot cheaper than these folks:
>
> ADL loses $10.5 million defamation suit 
> http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/000512/adl.shtml 
>
> As the dispute grew more heated, the Aronsons began listening to cordless
> telephone conversations of the Quigleys which they managed to overhear with
> a police scanner, and later recorded.
[...]

The difference is that the Aronsons actually *wiretapped* (and recorded) the 
phone calls while the Amish teen just used the 'tap' as a way to make "free" (to 
him) long distance calls...

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