Web Pioneers Warn of VoIP Wiretapping Problems
"These things do not respect borders," he said. "It’s very hard to see how something of this kind can be done both effectively and securely."
If the FCC CALEA rules are enforced, all kinds of Internet applications would be monitored, added Cerf, the chief Internet evangelist at Google. "I don’t see any way to constrain or restrict the target of the intercept to simply voice, because, in fact, every application would have to be effectively treated in the same fashion," he said. "There’s no way to tell what the bits mean in the packets that are flowing."
-Grant Gross, IDG News Service (Washington Bureau)
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