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FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable
pengie2 writes "The FCC has unanimously approved the U.S. Justice Department's bid to expand CALEA to broadband and VoIP networks, according to reports from SecurityFocus and News.com. This means, following a mandatory public comment period, service providers will have to wire their networks for easy law enforcement surveillance, the way phone companies do now. The feds have wanted this for a long time." Ebon Praetor adds a link to Reuters' version, writing "In addition, the FCC has decided that the push-to-talk, or walkie-talkie, functions available on phones from Nextel should also be subject to the same tapping regulations that regular phones are."
I guess me and my terrorist buddies will just have to go back to using encrypted email.
Is the FCC good or evil?
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
Immigration Canada
Just speak in Navajo pig latin with a Klingon accent.
See if they can make this illegal.
The thing is, why would I want seven virgins?
I'd much rather have seven porn stars.. I'm thinking that'd be much more fun down the stretch of the eons...
Yeah, yeah, it's rude and crude. Sue me.
Yay!
...
*a few minutes pass*
Your Rights Online: FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable
Boo!
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Power to the Peaceful
That's what you've been taught. That's what you've learned. That's what you've been led to believe.
What makes you think the government doesn't have some technology you can't even fathom?
If they were that far ahead, I'd be writing this from prison.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
So we get a story saying the FCC says TiVO can be shared... then they come right back with tapping VOIP. I guess you just gotta roll with it. Score one for the bad guys.
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I hope you enjoy your stay in our fine correctional facilities.
I think seven porn stars in the bodies of seven nubile virgins would be the optimal solution.
Shouldn't be too much of a stretch for an omnipotent creator, either.
You can teach a virgin to be a porn star, but you cant teach a porn star to be a virgin.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
...what will happen when major telcos start employing quantum cryptography...
... the ... eeeeeagle ... soar!
Ashcroft: All telecommunications are belong to us - intercept...intercept!
Techie: But Johnny, you canna change the laws of physics
Ashcroft (non-musically): Let the eeeeeagle soar!
Techie: But...
Ashcroft (in the style of Homer making a point): I said let
...and, on the seventh day, God switched off his Mac.
A man died and went to hell. There he saw a huge bar with all these bottles of liquor, and beautiful women everywhere. "This is awesome," he said. "I thought I was going to Hell!"
The Devil appeared and said with a sly grin, "You did! The bottles have holes in the bottom and the women don't."
They give a class in that at the CIA.
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I Hate \.
Terrorists may not be too smart. But tell me, how disorganized do you consider organized crime?
and this is why i quit reading slashdot.
ironic paradox intended
I'll love it when someday the FBI declares that all voice-chat applications must be tappable. So they'll insert backdoors into the next version of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, and their agents can sit all day and listen to teens discuss the sabotage of poison-gas canisters (in between homosexual puns)
>previous news: fcc good
>this news: fcc bad
>
>*confused*
We have a rule of thumb for these situations: everyone is bad, except when they do something good.
The unofficial
I don't see any steganography on google.
It must be hidden really well...
--Joe