[Asterisk-biz] Telecoms feel heat on wiretaps

[Race Vanderdecken]

The funny thing is that VoIP over the internet is not protected against
wire-tapping by anyone. 

Anyone who has VoIP box in the stream is legally allowed to look at all
the data going through their routers and computers. 

Experts and courts have always that people should have no reasonable
expectation of privacy across the internet as an unregulated medium.

"But with VoIP, telephone calls become little more than audio files,
which VoIP software can store in the same way that Adobe Photoshop makes
pictures and Microsoft Word makes text documents. It is a virtue of the
digital universe we live in that such files can, and probably will, be
routinely kept on the servers of our employers and telephony providers. 

This feature of VoIP software exposes its Achilles' heel. Stored records
have, by longstanding decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, no
"reasonable expectation of privacy." As a result, searching of those
records with much the same purpose as a wiretap can be conducted without
VoIP calls having any Fourth Amendment protection."
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/mar04/0304priv.html

Don't gripe at me. Even Scott McNealy once state that an expectation of
privacy on the internet was foolish.

Look, unregulated means no regulation. No 5 nines of SLA. There is no
911 service guarantee. VoIP over the open internet is free market
telephony, you get what you pay for. If you don't want postal workers
reading your love letters, then don't send them on the back of a
Postcard.

Race "The Tyrant" Vanderdecken

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Sergey
Kuznetsov
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:12 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Telecoms feel heat on wiretaps

It won't affect me.
I have this part in my Terms and Conditions. I am not crazy to resist to

enforcement agencies,
when they will show me the proper warrant.

Asterisk guy wrote:

>Telecoms feel heat on wiretaps
>Feb. 22, 2005. 01:00 AM at Toronto Star
>
>
>Canadian Officers and directors of telecom service providers could
>face fines as high as $500,000 or up to five years in prison if their
>companies fail to comply with wiretapping rules being considered by
>the federal government, the Toronto Star has learned.
>
>  [Full Story at 
>
>http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Render&
c=Page&cid=968350072197
>
>
>how  will it affect  voip/asterisk  in Canada?
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-- 
All the Best!
Sergey.
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Sergey Kuznetsov
President/CEO
         High Intellectual Technologies, Inc.

           Web: http://www.hitcalls.com
        E-mail: sergey.kuznetsov at highintellect.com
Business phone: (416) 548-9700
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