FCC considers crackdown on bad wireless receivers(arstechnica.com) |
FCC considers crackdown on bad wireless receivers(arstechnica.com) |
For those who are not terribly familiar with radio frequencies this is analogous to using Security By Obscurity. The designer just decided to gamble that nothing would happen to transmit in a band that the system would catch in a pattern that the receiver would interpret as a valid signal.
The FCC may have been the biggest barrier to human progress this century.
There are valid arguments to be made that the FCC has been a poor custodian of spectrum but Part 15 isn't one.