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Feds Want to Tap VoIP
An anonymous reader writes "From the Globe and Mail: The FBI and the U.S. Justice Department have renewed their efforts to wiretap voice conversations carried across the Internet. Federal and local police rely heavily on wiretaps. In 2002, the most recent year for which information is available, police intercepted nearly 2,200,000 conversations with court approval, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Wiretaps for that year cost taxpayers $69.5 million, and approximately 80 per cent were related to drug investigations."
Why?
... guilt... Send the flying monkeys at once!
What is it you're saying you wouldn't want the feds to hear?
I smell
fortune -o
I almost feel like setting up two VoIP lines, using one to call the other, then have a perpetually repeating recording playing over the line with every keyword and phrase they could possibly be looking for interspersed with me screaming "HA HA! GOTCHA! GET BACK TO DOING SOMETHING USEFUL!" .
Hang on, there's a knock at [Lost comm with host]
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
ironic, seeing as its probably filled with spyware if its from kazaa, and they'd sell to the highest bidder.
--- any post that takes longer than 20 seconds to write, isn't worth writing
Last time I checked, Al Queda wasn't using cold-calling to recruit new suicide bombers...
See? That nation-wide no-call list is good for *something*!
Ce n'est pas un vrai mouvement de robot!
the FBI will just break into your house/office and backdoor your computer.
Then sooner or later, Bubba will backdoor you in jail.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Dammit, I know... steganography.
I always make that mistake.
(or, it was a cleverly encoded message.)
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
I work for the NSA, and I probably shouldn't be telling you this
I work for the CIA, and I probably shouldn't be telling you this, but I just got orders to terminate you. Better go and have sex with your girl for the last time, because your days are numbered.
The Feds get all their phone sex for free, while me, I gotta pay $2.99/minute!
If criminals were smart, they would be running telcoms or energy companies, or on Wall Street, hyping Internet stocks. Oh, wait....
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
What?...and destroy 20% of the world's economy that's off the books? That would also wreck our wonderful prison/industrial complex. And where would Sheriff(sp) gelespie get his new Suburban without RICO?
What?
You may tap my phone. You may monitor my VOIP. You may intercept my e-mails. You may pillage my mail box and scrounge through my trash can. I accept all of these violations of my civil rights so that you can employ one more FBI agent and help stave off George's hemorrhaging unemployment figures. It's a form of entertainment for me, to say silly things in these mediums, just to amuse the man sitting in the van down the street, sipping cold coffee and eating stale donuts.
But I'll be damned if you're touching my carrier pigeons. I will feed them steroids and fit them with armor, if necessary, to keep you from interfering with my God-given right to private communications.
I'd just make it illegal to do anything illegal. Problem solved!
police intercepted nearly 2,200,000 conversations with court approval
how many did they intercept without court approval?