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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."
One end is sufficient.
How about encrypt and encode your messages into images and then post them on places like fark or deviantart? Simple enough. I'm not stupid why would a terrorist be?
Well, you did suggest encrypted email until the problem was pointed out to you. A terrorist might also not realize these pitfalls.
I've lived in both places. Canada is just as fucked up as the States. (Probably get modded flamebait, but take a look at the facts, because the Truth hurts...)
- It's illegal to buy, get this, MILK (?!?!) from a dairy farmer. (Right now, you can own part of the cow, to get around this stupid law.)
- It's illegal for the farmer to sell his grain to anyone other than the Wheat board. A number of years back, there was a farmer who owned land on both sides of the East-West dviding line. He was fined $10,000+ when he tried to sell his WHOLE crop at the higher price that the Eastern Wheat board was paying.
- Hemp protein contains ALL 20 known amino acids including the 9 essential amino acids (EAAs) our bodies cannot produce, yet this *natural* plant is illegal to posess or grow?!?! (I'm NOT talking about the hallucinogen type. The US constitution was written on Hemp paper for Christ's sake.)
What's that old adage?
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the republic.
Tactus.
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The evolution & "supposed" pre-ancient history of man is a crock.
One of the many proofs that intelligent pre-historic civilizations existed long BEFORE man's ancient civilizations...
1. Progression of "apparent" history of "man" - Hominidae is 3 millions years old
2. Geological Time Frames perspective
3. A machined 3D relief map 120-million years old in a 1-ton stone, with inscriptions. WTF?!
Yeah and the planes just navigated themselves into the trade center and the pentagon.
Time makes more converts than reason
Yeah and the planes just navigated themselves into the trade center and the pentagon.
Considering that those buildings were very nearly the largest possible man-made targets on the whole continent... they weren't that hard to hit.
Oh I didn't realize they were already on the flight path towards those buildings.
I've spend a few minutes at the controls of 747 simulators. It's true what they say: if you're already safely airborne, and you don't care much about your own survival, it's easy to turn a plane.
Both the target buildings were on the coastline, near a very distinctive river pattern. They really just had to follow the waterline, and then turn towards the giant building. If you check out the recorded flight paths, you can see this is what they did.
Teaching the required amount of flying is trivial in comparison to (a) getting a healthy young man willing to kill himself & others and (b) teaching him to function in US society without raising too much fuss.
(Condition B is easy on its own, but not in conjunction with A)
It reminds me of people calling the terrorists cowards right after 9/11.
Bill Maher was completely right.
The real issue here anyway is that terrorists aren't dumb. We can argue all day long whether the ones that piloted the planes were dumb or not but the fact is that Al Qaeda is already using encryption and other schemes to hide their transmissions. They do have technologically sophisticated people working for them. It's just a copout to call them idiots.
Your reference to Bill Maher should have been a reference to Bill Hicks. It was Hicks' line as your link illustrates but also, Hicks is much funnier.
Time makes more converts than reason