Verisign Offers Wiretapping Services

LinuxDeckard writes "According to this article at FindLaw, VeriSign will soon be offering its 'NetDiscovery' wire tapping services for a monthly fee. NetDiscovery will allow Telecoms to comply with court ordered wire taps." Verisign's press release is informative. This appears to be tapping of voice calls rather than internet usage. I assume it would work something like this: telecom company gets a wiretap notification from the FBI or local police; it routes all calls to/from $TARGET through a Verisign switch; Verisign does the tapping and reporting to the tappers. If you think this doesn't affect you, keep in mind that under the PATRIOT Act the barrier for wiretapping is set very low indeed.

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Re:Verisign - just acting wisely

[Mike Schiraldi]

Well, i could invoke Godwin's Law here, but i won't... Instead:

Yeah, and how about those slimy companies that made the socks worn by the Nazis? What a bunch of scumbags!

And the farmers who grew the corn they ate!

And the people who made the shirts the farmers wore!

Score -5: Doofus

[JCMay]

I am amazed...

As long as the responsible citizens of the US have the freedom to murder doctors who believe in giving women the right to a safe abortion

Can you provide a single instance where the murderer of an abortion doctor went unprosecuted? It's been my experience that government at all levels bend over backwards for abortion doctors and clinics. Locally, Meredith Rainey and other Operation Rescue associates were banned from restaraunts that are within a certain radius of a clinic. Never mind that they were only eating breakfast. Never mind that they were paying customers. Never mind they weren't protesting. The police came and threw them out.

Second, this "right" you speak of? Is it a natural right, like those of the Declaration of Independence? If abortion is the right of the woman where is it? In another window I have a copy of the Bill of Rights open. I find nowhere the right to kill unwanted babies. What say you to her baby's Fifth Amendment right to due process: ...nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law... What United States law has the baby committed that it is worthy of capital punishment? Where is the grand jury indictment, also a Fifth Amendment requirement?

Give me an example of what someone does wrong, and I'll give you one where we do something else wrong.

So what? Don't you not know that there's no such thing as good people? There's not. NOBODY is good. I'm not. You're not. CmdrTaco isn't (Sorry, Taco). To think otherwise is to be blind. Have you done anything bad? Have you thought about doing things that are bad? Have you not done things that you knew were good? Go ahead and feel bad for answering yes, but understand that there's never been a person that hasn't answered yes. Pointing out bad in people is easy; it's hardly sporting. Now, keeping that in mind, please direct me to a country that does more right than the United States. You won't be able to.

Now, after writing all this, I think IHBT...