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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."
GNAA Announces responsibility for kernel backdoor
By Tim Copperfield
Raleigh, NC - GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) this afternoon announced one of their loyal members was
responsible for planting the "backdoor" inside the popular opensores operating system, Lunix (Stocks, Websites).
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Insertion of the GNAA backdoor came right between the consideration of Novell to buy out
the entire Lunix Kernel programming team, and will most likely positively affect the decision. By adding all the gay niggers
working for Novell with the gay niggers developing Lunix kernel source, GNAA will be all-powerful and will begin plotting
our next plans to add "backdoors" into the next favorite operating system, BeOS.
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About Lunix
Lunix is an operating system. An operating system is the basic set of programs and util
Sounds fine to me; We have to keep our law enforcement departments up to date with technology. I would gladly trade my privacy in silly conversations for the safety of a secured America. The only people who don't like this stuff are people who have something to hide.
Someone listening to your VoIP calls?
I have successfully done the following in a lab environment and am working on a paper that will be published later this year. I have extensive research in computer security, networks, and telephony.
You have two options as of right now (January 2004):
1) Tunnel through SSH. Make secure calls.
2) Set-up or gain access to a VPN. Make secure calls.
Reply if you have any questions about techniques/code/environments/etc.
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
He doesn't have any points that I haven't already discussed throughout the rest of the thread. This discussion is over because you can't bring anything new to the table.
Firstly, I want to make it clear that I do value my privacy, and it is (or would be, at least) comforting to know that my communications are private. I'm with all of you on that.
But what do you expect authorities to do? These people have jobs, they have responsibilities. FOr FBI agents, heir responsibility is to catch criminals, often drug dealers. (Let's not get into whether that's a worthwhile goal--for marijuana, it's questionable, but for lots of other things, not so much.) How are they supposed to do that? These things are all about connections between people. Exchanges and conversations between individuals. Without tapping conversations, their only feasible way to EVER catch practically anybody is if they get a tip from another person, and then they would still have a hard time convicting them.
Of course, there are other things tapping is used for as well. Important things. Things that might be even harder to find through other means than drug deals.
So I don't like this, ultimately, but I can't find a way around it, if these people are going to do their jobs, and as such I think it's unfair to get mad at some of these people for doing what they do.
Just a thought.