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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?"
... large grains of salt. Remember, this is the same government that claimed TWA 800 climbed several thousand feet after it's nose was blown off, the same government that claimed that fat guy with the fat nose was bin laden in a videotape, the same government that claimed a truck full of fertiliser blew up the murragh building in OKC when you can see from the debris field most of the building was blown outwards from the inside, the same government that halted the afghan war and flew out upwards of 6,000 taliban, then resumed the war, same government that claimed the abuses in iraqi prisons were just a few low level grunts, same government that claimed that a helium truck for weather balloons was a mobile bioweapons lab, same government that claimed that saddam bought all this yellowcake from niger, same government that claimed torpedo boats attacked US destroyers in the gulf of tonkin, same government that claimed lee harvey oswald was the lone gunman despite all the eyewitness testimony and forensics, same government that claimed... aww heckfire, I could go on for hours just listing big fat lies they have pushed.
Don't believe that "chatter" BS just because they claim it is so. Where are the attacks? three years almost since 9-11, where are the additional attacks here from these hordes of ragheads they claim are sneaking around? See any? all I have seen is an anthrax attack using US grade A official Army anthrax, sent to some media and politician goofs while they had homeland security BS laws being debated and up for vote in congress. Joe raghead didn't do that.
This "war on terror" is way more a "war on domestic born with rights" and you and my's freedom, a way for much much much less than 1% of the population to literally rule over the other 99%. And there's a really strange wish for biblical armageddon and some strange "greater zion" weird cult aspect to them now as well, beyond nutso, at least with some of them at the top. Getting to steal the oil and water in the middle east is just a + plus bonus for them.
As to the phone taps, I have always assumed the government taps, opens mail, plants evidence, hides real evidence, etc, as much as they want to, and warrants and laws be damned. Had too many cops tell me "this is so" now to ignore it, along with all the other stuff that has come out over the years.
I understand what you are saying, just understand what I am saying, take whatever this government says as a bald faced lie until they prove it upside down and sideways, and that proof gets verified with truly independent research from someplace other than government spokespeople. Lying and schemeing and weasling are their default positions, especially on large issues.
Actually, we can eliminate gang warfare by:
* eliminating the sanctioned ghettoization of minorities
* eliminating the CIA-run black-market drug trade by legalizing all substances
* eliminating the governmental redistribution of wealth from the lower classes to the upper classes (in the old days, they called it 'tribute')
See, that's easy enough?
So how can we eliminate terrorism? Well...
* remove our support for Israel's unreasonable stockpile of WMDs and instead support standards very much like the ones we support for, say, Iraq
* stop trying to build military bases on the sites of shrines that we've 'inadvertantly' bombed
* stop bombing everybody!
* tell the soldiers sleeping in the sand to pack up their things and come home
* give Saddam Hussein his freakin' country back and issue a worldwide press release apologizing for our tyranny
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