Re: [privacy] Internet Pioneers: VoIP Wiretapping is Complicated

["<...>" <massimo () grandmedia si>]

so no backdoor in all those US based voip providers?
that's a good joke...

ok ferg, another one pls

p.s. any programmer knows how to put an invisible backdoor in millions of 
lines of code, good guys know thousands of ways to find them.
how many of them work for the state? any state :-)?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
To: <privacy () whitestar linuxbox org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:49 AM
Subject: [privacy] Internet Pioneers: VoIP Wiretapping is Complicated


> Pretty interesting article & report.
>
> Via InfoWorld.
>
> [snip]
>
> The study [.pdf], co-authored by several people including TCP/IP
> co-creator Vinton Cerf and former U.S. National Security Agency
> encryption scientist Clinton Brooks, comes days after a U.S. appeals
> court upheld the FCC's VOIP wiretapping rules. On Friday, the U.S.
> Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the ruling,
> requiring that VOIP providers offering a substitute for traditional
> telephone service comply with a 1994 telephone wiretapping law called
> the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA).
>
> The FCC did not immediately respond to a request for comments about the
> ITAA study. But on Friday, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said allowing law
> enforcement wiretapping of VOIP calls is of "paramount importance" to
> U.S. security.
>
> Tracking VOIP calls would be more difficult than tracking calls on the
> traditional telephone network, because VOIP providers have little
> control over how their calls are routed across the Internet, said
> Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun Microsystems Inc. VOIP
> providers "have no special Internet privileges" to control traffic,
> said Diffie, one of the study's authors.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/13/79252_HNvoipwiretapworry_1.html
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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