Feds Wiretapping the net

yellum

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/3466

From SF

Under the hateful CALEA wiretap law, telco equipment has to be designed and configured to allow the Feds to snoop on communications. Now the same agencies that brought CALEA to America are advocating that Voice-over-IP equipment be likewise regulated to be amenable to eavesdropping, and they suggest that this is just a runup to a general regulation of broadband ISPs to allow for DSL and cablemodem sniffing.

Elmo

Anyone Know of the Irish Act in relation to CALEA?

Martyr

no, but this sounds something like the clipper program or wider agenda of
'trusted computing'

check http://www.againsttcpa.com/ for other info.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Personally i would be of the opinion that they have the capacity to, and do scan every email/document sent over the internet.

Gavin

Google for Echelon.

TCPA doesn't necessarily imply monitoring of data.

And of course, the eurpoean directive on data retention is quite relevant

SolarNexus

Google for Echelon

Google is Echelon

timeout

I wonder are they monitoring this thread :cool:

dahamsta