FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance

FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-03-27

The Justice Department and the FBI ask regulators for expanded technical capabilities to intercept Voice Over IP communications... and anything else that uses broadband.

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FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance 2003-03-27
Anonymous

All VoIP applications should be encrypted by default. I understand it will need more cpu power but you could run it from your computer and microphone just fine.

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RE: FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance 2003-03-28
RogueClient (4 replies)

Well gee that's great but.....

The moment everybody starts implementing encryption over their voice communications, the FBI and friends are going to make the argument that only people with something to hide (i.e. criminals) need use encryption. One court order later and you're going to be handing...

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RE: FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance 2003-03-28
Anonymous

You have no fifth amendment in the UK....

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RE: FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance 2003-03-28
Anonymous

Yep...

Its laughable that the US and UK governments are talking about liberation, freedom from tyranny when in its own domestic situations it is reducing the populous to scared, frightened and MONITORED, citizens....

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RE: FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance 2003-03-29
Narat

Could you generate a different key pair and shred the old one on a regular(say, daily) basis, making it impossible to give up the key to old conversations and so giving you a way out? This would also prevent your private key from being read from a seized computer....

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RE: FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance 2003-03-31
Anonymous

What Justice Brandeis called "the right to be left alone" is fundamentally opposed to the governments interest in surveilance, and was *meant* to be in fundamental opposition to the government's interest.

Those who are interested in securing this right should work on defense in depth. Make it the...

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