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."

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Re:Law Enforcement and Technology

[tuxette]

The only people who don't like this stuff are people who have something to hide.

And this coming from an Anonymous Coward...

Paraphrasing Andre Bacard, people who have nothing to hide are either complete dullards or extreme exhibitionists.