VOIP Progress To Be Hobbled By Wiretap Costs?

Posted by Hemos on Monday August 23, 2004 @01:37AM 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?"

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Fuck 'em... by GoMMiX · 2004-08-23 01:51 · Score: -1, Redundant

I could come up with some intelligent arguement as to why this is wrong - but "Fuck 'em" just sums it up so well. So why bother.

Fuck 'em!
What's to stop you from using a foreign provider by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-23 01:53 · Score: -1, Redundant

Seriously, unless they want to start filtering every and each data packet that's sent or received from inside the US, there's nothing to stop you from using a VoIP provider in the free world.