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

[coderman <coderman () gmail com>]

On 6/16/06, <...> <massimo () grandmedia si> wrote:
> so no backdoor in all those US based voip providers?
> that's a good joke...

it's called a "Narus" device, works nicely on OC48 backbones, and does
deep inspection. :)

oh, you meant CALEA backdoors.  maybe all those NSA taps will be
repurposed if the VoIP providers throw a big fit about costs and
logistics...


> 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.

this is one reason why i agree with the assertion that secure code
requires open code.  (maybe not "open source", and certainly open
source does not make secure code)

also, privacy requires security.  you can figure out the rest of this
equation...


> how many of them work for the state? any state :-)?

does it really matter?  there are many reasons why anyone, working for
a government, a corporation, or the mafia, etc. might want to trojan
some code for personal profit or other reasons.

on the list of threats to your security and privacy state coders
planting backdoors or trojans in open source code is toward the bottom
of the list.  as for proprietary products i would not be surprised to
see such tactics more common but still not frequent.
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