Uncompatible Systems

Mon, 24 Oct 2005

FCC trys to order all VoIP systems to comply with wiretaps

The whole concept of a wiretap when dealing with voice over IP networks is ridiculous. It's incredibly difficult and could potentially involve hundreds of variable situations. Compare this to tapping a traditional analog pair from your local CLEC, which simply involves finding the demarc and touching a speaker with two wires on the end to the pair, and you will begin to see the gravity of this mandate.

So the FCC thought it would be a cool thing to try and order every single VoIP company and non-profit institution with existing VoIP infrastructure to comply with some abstract concept like "let us listen to your phone calls in the name of freedom."

posted at: 12:54 | path: /power | permanent link to this entry

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