[Asterisk-Users] FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable

Steve Totaro asterisk at totarotechnologies.com
Thu Aug 5 02:54:58 MST 2004


pretty pointless and may even bring scrutiny.  feds are looking for
encrypted data.  thats somthing the terrorists even know.  they are
supposedly communicating without any encryption so as to not raise any
flags.


> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----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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