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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."
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.