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."

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W-R-O-N-G

[Safety Cap]

USA PATRIOT ACT, section 214-216 means that the boys in the black sedans don't even need to prove jack in order to tap your arse--all that is required is signoff from a govt. attourney. Oh, and you are prohibited from finding out if they've tapped you (unlike in the olden days) until they haul your yellow self off to one of their reeducation centres.

Hope you feel safe, 'cause if you gave up all those rights for ... whatever it was you got, then you just got angloed down, mi amigo.