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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."
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."
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
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!
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.
police intercepted nearly 2,200,000 conversations with court approval
how many did they intercept without court approval?