[tivert]

> When people realized anyone with a sophisticated police scanner could listen in on cordless (and then early cellular) phone calls, it forced manufacturers to actually implement a bare-minimum level of security on those devices.

Did it?

IIRC, the biggest thing to fall out of that is the US government banned scanners that could pick up the frequencies commonly used by cordless phones.

[cruffle_duffle]

> IIRC, the biggest thing to fall out of that is the US government banned scanners that could pick up the frequencies commonly used by cordless phones.

I recall that. I think the age of SDR's made such a ban (law?) almost impossible to enforce.

[dylan604]

When did the age of SDRs begin where these devices were still in vogue? What's the overlap?

[pests]

Who said they overlapped?

OP stated the existence of SDRs now would render such a (new) ban (on scanners) wouldn't work.