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FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable

Posted by timothy on from the that-brother-keeps-growing-bigger dept.

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."

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  1. Oh well it was nice while it lasted by GoClick · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess me and my terrorist buddies will just have to go back to using encrypted email.

    1. Re:Oh well it was nice while it lasted by DavidBrown · · Score: 4, Funny

      Forget posting to Usenet, post to /. as an anonymous coward, type something supporting Microsoft and attacking Linux, followed by your terrorist communication. Get modded down to -1, and most people will never see your message anyway.

      Unless it's funny. That's why Al Quaida had to stop using it's initial protocol, which consisted of references to Natalie Portman and hot grits being poured into pants.

      The number of question marks in the typical underwear gnomes joke - that's code too, if you know what it means. The frequent use of Admiral Ackbar saying "It's a trap" on www.fark.com - code. "In Soviet Russia..." jokes - not code, but that's just to throw us off.

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  2. For more information: by temojen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Immigration Canada

  3. Re:The last thing I need... by cyber_rigger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just speak in Navajo pig latin with a Klingon accent.

    See if they can make this illegal.

  4. Good news everyone! by Saeger · · Score: 4, Funny
    Your Rights Online: FCC Says TiVo Owners Can Share Shows

    Yay!
    *a few minutes pass*
    ...

    Your Rights Online: FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable

    Boo!

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  5. Re:How feasible is this? by Carnildo · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    "They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
  6. Re:Do try harder by shut_up_man · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:Do try harder by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can teach a virgin to be a porn star, but you cant teach a porn star to be a virgin.

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  8. Just imagine... by Gelfman · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...what will happen when major telcos start employing quantum cryptography...

    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 ... the ... eeeeeagle ... soar!

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    ...and, on the seventh day, God switched off his Mac.
  9. Re:The last thing I need... by dnahelix · · Score: 4, Funny

    They give a class in that at the CIA.

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