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To: JMD who wrote (24893)	3/25/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: Ingenious	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Ripping off the "code" from the airwaves is harder w/ CDMA since the information is scrambled in real-time using codes provided by the base station. Somewhere in the bits being transmitted through the air is the phone's electronic id but trying to descramble and steal it out of the air is probably not too easy. IN the past, AMPS phones were basically about as sophisticated as a small radio transmitter tuned into a particular frequency. Using a BearCat (??) scanner you could listen in on the conversation and decode the EID from a pilot signal without too much bother. These hackers probably received the frequency plan used in the AMP network and sat in the car near a base station tuned into one of the 16 or so frequencies. If you really want to know more about this stuff there are several underground organizations that supply the equipment and teach people about it. Pretty scary what people do in there spare time. (Pretty scary that I am on this thread right now!) By the way, WHAT ARE PEOPLE'S PREDICTION OF THE EFFECT OF ERICSON ON QS STOCK TOMMOROW?? Personally, I think there will be a spike to 94.5 and then a drop to about 80. Leland