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Feds Want to Tap VoIP

Posted by michael on from the can-i-hear-you-now dept.

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."

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  1. Hmm... by Loki_1929 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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]

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  2. Re:Can I be the first to say... by rco3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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*!

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  3. Re:Criminals are stupid, that's why they get caugh by whoever57 · · Score: 4, Funny
    No. Criminals generally do dumb things and get caught, even the more intelligent ones. They only need to make one mistake. That is law enforcements advantage. Crime can be a pretty unforgiving profession.

    If criminals were smart, they would be running telcoms or energy companies, or on Wall Street, hyping Internet stocks. Oh, wait....

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