[Asterisk-Users] FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable

[Greg Blakely]

Does the FCC honestly expect that criminals are going to stop using
encrypted point-to-point VOIP connections just so that they won't be
breaking the law? 

Yeah, right.   I'm sure they'll all erase their encrypted IM clients so
that the FCC will be happy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:58 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable
> 
> 
> > Me raises his hand.
> > > All in favor of IAX with native encrypted tunneling say 
> Aye :-) Now 
> > > I'm likely in the target rings of Big Brother :-)
> 
> If the voice data passed through a service provider run 
> asterisk system, I'd imagine they'd just get a court order to 
> force IAX encryption to be turned off.  (Or try to pull some 
> strings if the service provider was in a foreign country.)
> 
> The question I have of this ruling is does this make 
> end-to-End RTP encryption illegal?  Ditto for re-invites that 
> cut out all the middlemen?  How are they planning in getting 
> the two endpoints to stop encrypting things without tipping 
> off the same two endpoints?  What about VPN tunnels?  Are 
> they illegal now by the same logic?
> 
> -wolfgang
> -- 
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht                http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
> openbsd amd64 
> http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ftp/asterisk-openbsd35.patch
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