Big Brother Wants Into VoIP At Any Cost

wallaby fly-half writes "An amendment to the CALEA law would make it easier for the government to monitor calls made over VoIP and even temporarily store some packet traffic. Ars Technica reports that the 'bill will put the technology in place to buffer packet streams, and places the job of filtering those streams under government control. We know from the NSA warrantless wiretapping program that the government is not limiting itself to access to under court orders, and the CALEA bill must be considered in light of the capacity it generates.'"

Avoid the Risk--Use Zfone

[eldavojohn]

It's a document like this [fcc.gov] that make you want to install an application like this [philzimmermann.com].

From the FCC Mandate:

First, the Order affirms that the CALEA compliance deadline for facilities-based broadband Internet access and interconnected VoIP services will be May 14, 2007, as established by the First Report and Order in this proceeding. The Order concludes that this deadline gives providers of these services sufficient time to develop compliance solutions, and notes that standards developments for these services are already well underway.

From Phil's site:

Zfone uses a new protocol called ZRTP, which is better than the other approaches to secure VoIP, because it achieves security without reliance on a PKI, key certification, trust models, certificate authorities, or key management complexity that bedevils the email encryption world.

The stupid part of this is that we shouldn't have to do this ... but with the way the wind is blowing inside the beltway, you need to adapt and avoid the risk. The FCC & NSA can walk all over you until the climate changes, be patient and resist.

You are innocent. You have done nothing to give the government the right to investigate you or collect your phone records with the intent to prosecute you. If you're an American, take a few hours to protect what so many people have fought and died for: your rights to privacy and being innocent until proven guilty.

What next? Is the King of England going to be able to listen in on my VoIP calls?

Re:Avoid the Risk--Use Zfone

[HugePedlar]

"What next? Is the King of England going to be able to listen in on my VoIP calls?"

Yes, even if you encrypt, and if by King you mean Prime Minister. The RIP Act forces suspects to reveal encryption keys on pain of imprisonment, whether charged with a crime or not. Useful, huh?

Encrypt Everything?

[Danga]

So wouldn't the logical thing to do be encrypt everything? If they had to try and decrypt every packet in the "buffer" I think the point of even trying to unencrypt anything would be worthless. If I had a VoIP system I would want it setup in such a way that I control how the conversation is encrypted so I could use whatever algorithm and passcodes I damn well want. I am sure the government will try to make this type of setup illegal or demand a backdoor though.

Re:Power to the People

[Anonymous Coward]

I was just wondering if it's not possible to not openly encrypt your VOIP stream, while actually hiding the actual conversation in it in an encrypted form.

A bit like the idea of steganography. You could loop the radio conversation/movie scene/national anthem for the duration of your conversation, acting like some kind of carrier for the actual message. In such a way that you've got possible deniability of course. ("me and my friends just like the national anthem, being good patriots!" ;))

(Perhaps this might also be a stupid idea from someone whose far from an expert in this field.. hence the AC)

nuts

[Anonymous Coward]

with black box voting, all your choices are belong to the bilderburgers and globalist folk of their ilk. You aren't really naieve enough to think your vote really matters past some local elections are you? All the bigshots (anything above county level) get hand picked in advance. If it looks like "their boy" won't get in, they screw with the numbers and use their media assets to make it seem like their boy won. It's that simple, and obvious to see that is what is going on. That's why you saw skull and bones kerry just shutup and run away as fast as his milionaire loafers could carry him in the face of all the ohio election fraud evidence-he's in on it, the fix is in and has been in for a long time now. The president gets chosen for you by the transnational big money boys. He's their official public spokesman, that's it.

The only thing that might fix this system at this time frame is to physically throw ALL the D and R bums out, into prison might be a good choice. If you think something is viable and has a D or R next to their name..well...it hasn't worked so far, so we need some proof, show some proof that the next time you would get any different results than what we have seen for the past three generations.

There's two choices for national leadership people-nationalists or globalists. We have lived under globalists since JFK got killed and the perps walked on it. They got away with offing him, with starting the nam war, with starting a lot of other wars, with being complicit in the 9-11 attacks, etc. And if you think that is extreme, google for the northwoods documents and realise the ENTIRE chief of staff signed off on it, JFK rejected it(because it's hideous), a few months later he got whacked. Run occam's razor by that one to see who the perps were.

    Every step of the way this fascist globalism controller crap has been supported by the D and R party at the leadership levels, with their grassroots being willing useless idiots. Sorry, but it is true. Brainwashed worker drones.

  We used to be controlled by a congress of all majority Ds and a president who was a D-it sucked then too! Again, back right after JFK got the lead injections. It was freakin terrible! Destroyed the economy so bad they had to run the printing presses, and that hasn't stopped to this day. Wiped out a generation of young american males and no telling how many foreigners so that the globalists could make some more blood profits in another contrived scam war. Later rinse repeat, every election cycle the same old back and forth crap between criminal gang D or R, like it makes a bit of difference. Now they are *terrified* of having ANY third party candidate on the stage with them at the so called "national debates", so they just don't bother, and the lapdog media still goes along with it-because those lapdogs are owned by less than one dozen humans! Orders fall downstream. Occam's razor part two on that scene.

  There's no practical difference, so a real "viable" alternative is anyone BUT a globalist D or R for every position out there, handpicked crony judges included,so chuck the whole lot of 'em OUT! They have proven they can't "clean up" their own "partys" so why keep trusting them liars? How many generations worth of years of evidence does it take for this to sink in?

  Otherwise you will just get the same old boning without the courtesy of a reach around.

Re:That's One Idea, Here's A Better One

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello?
Can you please tell me more about this firing of rockets into cities for two years?
I guess I was either asleep during the time or I was still catching up on the sixty years of bombings and bulldozing of cities and refugee camps.