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FCC Giving Veto Power to FBI Over VoIP?
An anonymous reader writes "In this article, the FCC reveals that if you're using VoIP products at your own behest then you may have personal legal requirements to provide the FBI with access to information they might want to intercept. Or to put it another way, using encryption with VoIP can prevent the FBI from implementing wire taps."
10 Read aticle9 30221&tid=158&tid=215 // previous /. links the same Cnet article
20 Read the existing slashdot comments here
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/1
30 Repost Comments here
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Encryption is bad for people who want to spy on you
When Encryption is outlawed, only outlaws #$%TYHNFBGNHGFDCVFBGHFHkjhskjdghs346df/
1) Is FBI over VOIP a new protocol?
2) Very apropos quote at bottom of the page:
"Increased knowledge will help you now. Have mate's phone bugged."
3) I have trouble with limits.
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
And in news to hand, the FBI wants to ban talking over backyard fences with the neighbors.
"We cannot bug all the backyard fences in America, so we'll just have to outlaw talking to the neighbors that way. Only authorised communication over interceptable devices can be permitted in a free society."
Fortunately, sociologists have confirmed that the universal failure of American couples to communicate, or even talk, during sex means that procreative activity will not have to be banned as well. The CIA confirmed that terrorists do their murderous acts because they are prevented from looking at wholesome bikini-clad girls - those secretive burqas hiding the female form are the true cause of extremism. "This is why our army in Iraq was trying to show the captured Iraqis that nakedness is good. I guess they just took it the wrong way", suggested an Army spokesperson.
"Only a terrorist would want free speech", added an FBI agent. "Encrypted VOIP is like wearing a burqa to hide a bomb."
And that's all the news (you're allowed to hear) from the Land of the Free.
I am anarch of all I survey.
(Scene: A cave in Pakistan.)
(Al Zawahri walks briskly into the cave where Osama Bin Laden is playing solitaire. Al is holding a printout from a CNet web page.)
Al: Osama! Look what the infidels have done! We cannot encrypt the holy warrior communication as planned. We must allow the cursed FBI to listen to our blessed instructions. What shall we do??
Osama: You make me sad this day. Allah has chosen to test us. Since we cannot possibly violate FCC regulation, we have no choice but to resort to manual couriers to communicate jihad instructions to our soldiers of freedom. Praise Allah, we will get our messages through.
Al: But do you not remember our cost estimates? We can't find enough holy warriors to handle all of our communication. We used the money to install air conditioning in the cave. We are doomed.
Osama: (After thinking). We have no choice but to shut down our operations once and for all. Curse the FBI and their unholy ways! Our jihad is over. (Raises fist in the air). Curse you George Bush! Curse you!
(Osama and Al pull off their robes and fake beards and put on business suits. Osama holds up a stuffed elephant and holds it up.)
Osama: They may have won the War On Terror with their infernal FCC regulations, but they will lose the War on Cheap Toy Imports! In America, big business is never regulated!
Al: Allah has shown us the way!
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