[privacy] Internet Pioneers: VoIP Wiretapping is Complicated

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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


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