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People stress about the safeguards too much. If you run around trying to jam gps, airband, or cellular you'll get your pp slapped pretty hard. If you go off and experiment with random other stuff without making too much noise, literally nobody cares.


yea, it's possible to loose perspective on how much people can just go out and do in life, and how after-the-fact most of the systems that prevent it are.

It seems like there is a predisposition to that perspective shift for people who spend all day working on little boxes that are the one area of society where relentless permissions and control are ruthlessly and untiringly micromanaged to high heaven. There's a lot of fatalism that after the fact remedies are impossible if something was done with a computer, even when the actions in question are performed by known parties that comply with legal bounds.


It's not just about getting caught. Many of us hams try to cause as little interference to others as a matter of honour and pride in our hobby.




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