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Comment by sidewndr46

20 hours ago

This is still the case today in the US, plenty of pager systems run POCSAG or near equivalents. There is no conditional access or encryption of any kind. Receiving such signals is notionally criminal, but I'm unaware of any prosecutions for such a thing.

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