Rattle wrote:
] ] The Federal Communications Committee and the Justice
] ] Department are at loggerheads over a new problem in the
] ] war on terror: how to listen in on Internet phone calls.
] ] Thanks to the blistering growth of VoIP (Voice over
] ] Internet Protocol) services, which have been adopted by
] ] approximately 10 million people worldwide so far, law
] ] enforcement officials now worry that wiretapping may one
] ] day become technically obsolete. If traditional phone
] ] lines go the way of the horse and carriage, will the FBI
] ] still be able to listen in on Internet phone calls? How
] ] would it go about tapping one? Is it even possible?
]
] The gateways between the Internet VoIP based phone networks
] and the traditional phone networks are about the only places I
] can picture CALEA-compliant (like) hardware/software existing.
] Purely Internet based VoIP networks are going to resist any
] type of monitoring, use crypto, and exist even if they are
] outlawed.

w00t!! go VoIP!!! :)

RE: Can They Hear You Now? - How the FBI eavesdrops on Internet phone calls (and why it sometimes can't). By David S. Bennahum