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VOIP Progress To Be Hobbled By Wiretap Costs?

Posted by Hemos on from the changing-the-base-level-assumptions dept.

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?"

3 of 392 comments (clear)

  1. Down with the man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First down with da man post.

  2. More reason to vote Libertarian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When will the American people wise up and vote the facists out of office?!

  3. Go ahead. Make my day. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Use the last bit in each byte of the JPG image at the location indicated in my last message to read the next message, and so on.

    Decipher WHAT Mr. Police-State Representative?