VoIP service technology experts are not pleased:
Federal regulations saying that police must be able to tap into Internet phone conversations with ease are coming under renewed attack from academics, engineers and one of the Net’s founding fathers.
A 21-page study (click for PDF) to be released Tuesday says it’s impossible for the government to expect all products that use voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, to comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s September 2005 requirement mandating wiretapping backdoors for government surveillance. That requirement is backed by the Bush administration.
The study, organized by the Information Technology Association of America, says that because VoIP relies on a fundamentally different network architecture from that of traditional phone lines, such a mandate would pose "enormous costs" to the industry and could even introduce significant security risks.
The nine contributors included Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist and one of the Net’s founding fathers; Steven Bellovin and Matt Blaze, both prominent computer security professors who specialize in security; Clinton Brooks, a former National Security Agency official; and engineers from Sun Microsystems and Intel.
9-16-2007 22:17:52
Well,
All of those ‘experts’ you mentioned that say it costs too much work for the same companies who are publicly traded on the stock market. They are looking at VOIP as a profit margin and any ‘backdoor’ engineering will not take a significant portion of that margin.
The idea of wiretapping is to prevent criminal acts and possibly terrorism. If you aren’t doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about. Let’s protect our country. Let’s protect ourselves.