Court Backs Broadband Wiretap Access

bitkid writes "Reuters reports that the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a petition aimed at overturning a FCC decision requiring broadband providers and others that offer Internet telephone service to comply with wiretap laws. According to the court, private networks would not be subject to the wiretap requirements. Just the same, networks connected with a public network would have to comply with the law." From the article: "The court concluded that the FCC requirement was a 'reasonable policy choice' even though information services are exempted from the government's wiretapping authority."

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Re:Encryption

[Geekenstein]

Most encryption can be broken, especially when it is something that has to be done quickly for time sensitive applications, like VoIP data (computation time is bad when you're talking in real time). If the government wants the information bad enough, they'll dissect it.

Even then, you might well be surprised at how many people just use Vonage to talk about committing a crime, just like they use normal phones today.

The smart ones will encrypt, of course. They may even use good encryption. But scrambled data is a lot better than data you don't have.

Re:Encryption

[Anonymous Coward]

Most encryption can be broken, especially when it is something that has to be done quickly for time sensitive applications, like VoIP data (computation time is bad when you're talking in real time). If the government wants the information bad enough, they'll dissect it.

Bullshit. AES is fast enough to be done in a few milliseconds for the block sizes that VoIP needs. The main latency is still from you to your ISP.

And if anyone had broken AES, you'd surely know about it.

Public ?

[Joebert]

So where's this public network I keep hearing about, & how much does it cost ?
I've been paying my membership fees to access my service providers private networks for years now.