[asterisk-users] CALEA support within asterisk?

[J. Oquendo]

Rich Adamson wrote:
> For those that are not familiar with CALEA, it's the governement's way 
> of intercepting or "monitoring" voice communications (presumably with 
> a court order) for law enforcement personnel, etc. The broadband / 
> ITSP compliance due date is May 14, 2007. 

For those unfamiliar with CALEA entirely, Asterisk is solely a program 
running on a machine. It does logging like any other program, so logging 
is available, the majority of your concern should come from your network 
where the taps would occur... Anyway the FCC permits some providers to 
apply for an exemption to CALEA when monitoring is not technically 
feasible. Anyone with enough networking, engineering experience can 
draft up information and request exemption.

http://www.xchangemag.com/hotnews/5bh171622461175.html

Anyhow of newsworthiness and humor (depending on your view) "The FCC is 
also responsible for the steady expansion of the Communications 
Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) and has attempted to mandate 
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060613-7042.html> VoIP 
back-doors despite the fact that doing so contradicts the language and 
intent of CALEA as well as the agency's own standing policies regarding 
the classification of Internet services. The FCC is also guilty of 
frequent attempts to exceed its authority, most notably by attempting to 
mandate <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041006-4280.html> the 
anti-consumer broadcast flag without congressional authorization."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060917-7758.html

Right... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060917-7758.html

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