Speak Freely was great when it first came out, but now we have a standard protocol for VoIP (SIP), and SF doesn't support it. Rather than keep SF alive, why not work on adding crypto to SIP clients?
That only works for cone NATs, not restricted NATs. Also, putting N different kinds of NAT traversal code in every application is a lot to ask of developers.
Can the FBI tap encrypted PC-to-PC voice connections, such as those made with Skype software, without personally presenting a warrant to one of the parties?
Yes, I believe with a court order they can break into your house/office and replace your copy of Skype with a backdoored version. But that has nothing to do with the article, which is about IP-to-PSTN VoIP providers.
The whole point of the article is that the FBI does not want to actually do the tapping. They want Vonage, Packet8, etc. to do the tapping for them.
If you're using IP-to-IP VoIP instead, the FBI will just use Carnivore.
If you're using crypto, the FBI will just break into your house/office and backdoor your computer.
FBI can already tap VoIP, just not easily
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I just want to point out that the FBI can currently tap VoIP calls either at the customer side using Carnivore or at the provider's PSTN trunks thanks to CALEA. Really all they're asking for is an easier way to do it.
They should use fair queueing to give each customer equal bandwidth and then not worry about it. Caps are dumb and allowing people to hog bandwidth in the first place is dumb.
OS X server comes with an unlimited client license and you can put it on as many computers as you please.
Nope. Unlimited clients mean that unlimited clients can connect to the server. You still have to have separate OS licenses for your client machines. But this has nothing to do with clusters that run regular OS X.
I want to sell my processor time to a broker who will resell it on a day to day basis to whoever is the highest bidder.
Several companies tried this back in 2001 and discovered that the processor time on your computer is worth less than the overhead cost of using it. Sorry.
There's a big difference between DVD and iTunes: DVD players are not field-upgradeable, but iTunes is. RIAA could force Apple to release a new version of iTunes with a new DRM system every month to stay ahead of the crackers.
In order to play the file you have to decrypt the content. Tomorrow there will be another patch that lets you write the decrypted data to an M4A file; you can bet on it.
The computer version of Blu-Ray is already out; Sony calls it professional optical disc or something. Too bad it probably costs more per GB than hard disks.
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Have you tried linphone on Linux and X-Lite on Windows?
Future OSes will enable IPv6 automatically.
IIRC the Feds pay for the equipment out of a CALEA compliance fund.
Speak Freely was great when it first came out, but now we have a standard protocol for VoIP (SIP), and SF doesn't support it. Rather than keep SF alive, why not work on adding crypto to SIP clients?
That only works for cone NATs, not restricted NATs. Also, putting N different kinds of NAT traversal code in every application is a lot to ask of developers.
IPv6 addresses are practically free, but "consumer" ISPs still won't give them to you.
I think if ipv6 penetrates the enduser-market in native mode (won't happen 'till cisco and MS say so), most isp's will give in.
Cisco and MS said yes to IPv6 a while ago, but it's still not here, so there must be some other reason.
If the FBI has a wiretap order on your line, the provider simply forces all of your traffic through a proxy that they control.
Can the FBI tap encrypted PC-to-PC voice connections, such as those made with Skype software, without personally presenting a warrant to one of the parties?
Yes, I believe with a court order they can break into your house/office and replace your copy of Skype with a backdoored version. But that has nothing to do with the article, which is about IP-to-PSTN VoIP providers.
The whole point of the article is that the FBI does not want to actually do the tapping. They want Vonage, Packet8, etc. to do the tapping for them.
If you're using IP-to-IP VoIP instead, the FBI will just use Carnivore.
If you're using crypto, the FBI will just break into your house/office and backdoor your computer.
I just want to point out that the FBI can currently tap VoIP calls either at the customer side using Carnivore or at the provider's PSTN trunks thanks to CALEA. Really all they're asking for is an easier way to do it.
They should use fair queueing to give each customer equal bandwidth and then not worry about it. Caps are dumb and allowing people to hog bandwidth in the first place is dumb.
I think that's because DSL tends to have sane pricing.
ASCI Q (#2) probably runs Tru64 Unix.
OS X server comes with an unlimited client license and you can put it on as many computers as you please.
Nope. Unlimited clients mean that unlimited clients can connect to the server. You still have to have separate OS licenses for your client machines. But this has nothing to do with clusters that run regular OS X.
If you're trying to argue that distributed computing is profitable, I wouldn't point to distributed.net as an example.
And selling distributed / Grid computing to corporations is very different from random people selling idle time on home computers.
I want to sell my processor time to a broker who will resell it on a day to day basis to whoever is the highest bidder.
Several companies tried this back in 2001 and discovered that the processor time on your computer is worth less than the overhead cost of using it. Sorry.
Virginia Tech's magic error-correcting software doesn't correct nearly as many errors as ECC does, and it doesn't work for most applications.
ECC is and was needed; the people who said otherwise are apologists.
The iPod mini is not solid state; it has a hard disk.
There's a big difference between DVD and iTunes: DVD players are not field-upgradeable, but iTunes is. RIAA could force Apple to release a new version of iTunes with a new DRM system every month to stay ahead of the crackers.
In order to play the file you have to decrypt the content. Tomorrow there will be another patch that lets you write the decrypted data to an M4A file; you can bet on it.
But this requires the key to be distributed with each file.
Nope; you could strip the DRM when you serve the file. How long will it be until P2P file sharing apps have this feature built in?
99% of DSL lines are used for IP, so all the DSL line needs to do is get the packets from one end of the pipe to the other; PPP is fine for that.
(To preempt the pedants, I know that "DSL line" is redundant.)
What about PPP or HDLC?
The computer version of Blu-Ray is already out; Sony calls it professional optical disc or something. Too bad it probably costs more per GB than hard disks.