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VOIP Progress To Be Hobbled By Wiretap Costs?
vaporland writes "This article @ nytimes.com talks about the reasons that development of commercial VOIP may be stifled by the costs required to allow the federal government to listen in on conversations. It is the intention of the FBI, et al, to provide a truly unfunded mandate to force VOIP service providers to develop and provide this wiretap access to them at no cost to the U.S. government, which is to say, the consumer of VOIP will foot the bill for allowing the government to listen in on our phone calls. Perhaps they should just hire some script kiddies to show them how to do it on the cheap?"
If I don't pay for the wiretapping costs, don't wiretap me.
Yeah. Why don't they just use their own money instead of making us pay for it?
KFG
Encryption?! What are you, some kind of filthy terrorist?
Oh how interesting things would be if the likes of Vonage added "Federal Wiretap Fee" as a lineitem on the bill.
I bet some federal officials would get an earfull. If the general population will have to pay for this feature, they should at least know.
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Around the same time GW Bush stole...err, Ashcroft might be watching...I mean WON the last election.
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Oh my no, its much more expensive than you think.
Firstly, theres all the hackers using something called "Linux", the young Feds were trained on MS Windows, and then they have to rebuild their FBI hard coded network monitor to operate on a port other than 80.
Most of all, the retraining fees are needed because they are no longer using mice with balls, they have upgraded and now have mice with frikkin lazer beams attached to their underbelly.
I fail to see really how this can be implimented without actually allowing tapping the rest of the data stream, otherwise anybody could simply sign up to an offshore service using encryption and another port.
liqbase
How about make it so easy to wiretap that anyone can do it. Just let everyone listen to everyone else. No reason the feds should have all the fun.
a little plugin that detects the wiretap and pops up a little notification dialog.
"The drugs are hidden in the... "
[Ding Dong - You've Got Feds!]
"..medicine cabinet, just take two asprin and call me in the morning"
It baffles me why Americans are not rioting in the streets.
Easy. The streets are not a designated free speech zone.
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on that day i'll take the terrorists' side and suggest they go target the white-house instead of innocent people who are helpless to do anything.
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