[Asterisk-Users] FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable

Steven P. Donegan steve at donegan.org
Wed Aug 4 17:48:49 MST 2004


All in favor of IAX with native encrypted tunneling say Aye :-)

Now I'm likely in the target rings of Big Brother :-)



Jay Milk wrote:

>Yikes... I don't think it should be too problematic with PSTN
>termination, but if you're making VOIP-to-VOIP calls, you will only act
>as a SIP Proxy (or somesuch) and won't even be part of the stream.
>Besides, those who would use VOIP for ill, would probably use direct
>ip-dialing anyway.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Florin Andrei [mailto:florin at andrei.myip.org] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 6:02 PM
>>To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable
>>
>>
>>http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/04/2212251&tid=15
>>8&tid=95&tid=103
>>
>>Probably some of you already saw this.
>>Now, beyond discussions regarding the legitimacy of such a 
>>ruling (whether they have the legal, moral or whatever right 
>>to enforce it), there's the technical aspect.
>>
>>Suppose i provide VoIP services using Asterisk, and i fall 
>>under the incidence of the FCC ruling and i have to provide a 
>>tap to the guys in the black helicopters. What are the 
>>guidelines, what should i do to ensure i won't get spanked 
>>because i obstructed the justice or some such. More 
>>precisely, what config bits must be put in place to make sure 
>>there's always an easy way, with Asterisk, to tap into 
>>arbitrary calls?
>>
>>-- 
>>Florin Andrei
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