It may have only been this way because the company I was working at was using ancient equipment - but we had our level 1 and level 2 controls on a thicknet (10Base2) backbone.

Nobody even knows how to use a "vampire tap" anymore!

++ Absolutely correct!! SCADA should be considered a Level II control system, and subject to the same degree of security as the devices that are actually controlling the valves!

Pete Townsend wrote it, Roger Daltry sang it, and both of those geezers are still around!

In Maryland this law is based on a wiretap statute against recording audio... so presumably silent security camera recordings and traffic cameras are not covered.

The cable company is waiving the "Fair Use" defense because they don't want to win a case that then strengthens the "Betamax" decision.

that this is news. I don't know how much they've dumbed down the test since then, but in the days when you still had to learn code at 5wpm for a novice license - ANYONE who passed the written exam had enough knowledge to build an antenna. Hell, anyone who could get a tech or general class license (the minimums that allowed voice communication) could have designed the transmitter as well! Get off my lawn! 73 de n2auz

I don't think it's that difficult to draw the line. Contemporary writings to the constitution describe the armament that all militiaman should have as including a musket and sufficient quantities of shot and powder. There's no mention of the "WMDs" of the day, ie: cannon and mortars.

Therefore, you might interpret the 2nd as guarantying the rights to the weaponry of an individual infantry soldier. This would exclude squad operated weapons, but include light automatic rifles, grenades, and the smaller varieties of RPGs.

This is still not very likely to happen, but this is where a straightforward reading of the 2nd would get you.