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Wiretap cover-up rings privacy alarm bells
News Last year, the LAPD and prosecutors admitted to concealing the role that court-authorized wiretaps played in 58 criminal cases since 1993 -- a practice that defense attorneys say violates federal and state laws and cheats defendants of the right...
[October 22, 1999, 10:16]
WireTap Anywhere
Downloads WireTap Anywhere provides you with a professional virtual audio patchbay for your Macintosh. With WireTap Anywhere, your applications are instantly transformed into audio inputs. Any program on your computer that generates audio can show up as a...
[August 28, 2009, 16:14]
WireTap Studio
Downloads WireTap Studio is a professional audio recording, editing, and management solution, allowing you to manage and manipulate your audio with ease. After recording, edit your clips with WireTap Studio's revolutionary and completely lossless editor.
[November 24, 2009, 20:42]
Swiss Government tests VoIP wiretap software
Talkback I have been "testing" some software for VOIP also, its called Cain&Able. Idiots, get a clue
[October 12, 2006, 4:08]
FBI cut off for unpaid wiretap bills
Blog Are you a member of an international law enforcement organisation? For those clandestine surveillance operations, remember to pay your telephone and email providers promptly, or you may have your wiretaps cut off like the FBI.
[January 11, 2008, 16:12]
US furor rises over PC wiretap plan
News A US Department of Justice proposal to make it easier for police to break into homes and access computers is drawing a furious reaction from civil libertarians and high-tech industry trade groups. The draft legislation, for which the DOJ hopes to...
[August 23, 1999, 9:07]
Swiss Government tests VoIP wiretap software
News The Swiss Government has been testing surveillance software that could enable it to eavesdrop on voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications. According to Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung, police and intelligence services could could infect...
[October 11, 2006, 12:25]
Concerns raised over plans for global wiretap
News Civil libertarians raised concerns Wednesday over moves to create an international standard for snooping on Internet telephone calls. Internet telephony may not yet be widely adopted but commentators predict voice calls over the Net will compete...
[November 11, 1999, 10:22]
VoIP evades surveillance
News Some Internet phone-service providers say they're willing to cooperate with police seeking to wiretap conversations -- but they can't because of technical limitations. Jeff Pulver, founder of Free World Dialup, said on Friday that if law...
[February 16, 2004, 10:15]
FBI seeks power to eavesdrop on Net
News Internet telephone calls are fast becoming a national security threat that must be countered with new police wiretap rules, according to an FBI proposal presented quietly to regulators this month. So far, the FCC has interpreted CALEA's wiretap...
[July 29, 2003, 14:21]
Clock ticking for ISP VoIP-tapping
News An FCC representative who did not want to be identified by name said on Monday "whoever operates the system" would be subject to federal wiretap requirements. It's clear from the Federal Communications Commission's 59-page decision, released late...
[September 27, 2005, 10:35]
Computer crime treaty threatens human rights
News The group says such measures would give police forces free range to wiretap Internet users and would be open to abuse. Human rights groups have already warned that RIPA gives too much power to law enforcers to wiretap Internet users.
[October 19, 2000, 7:41]
US VoIP wiretapping legality hazy, says EFF
Blog But you typically need to identify the target of a wiretap, and that could be problematic for a foreign VoIP provider. Tien was fairly sure that Title III of the act, which deals with a standardised format that ISPs must use to present wiretap data...
[August 5, 2009, 13:13]
FBI taps ISPs in hunt for attackers
News The FBI developed Carnivore, now renamed DCS1000, to allow it to wiretap communications that go through Internet service providers. Calling the warrant "equivalent to a wiretap," Greenfield also denied that the company had let the FBI install a...
[September 13, 2001, 9:57]
Carnivore cleared by Department of Justice
News The FBI started the Carnivore project -- originally under the name "Omnivore" -- in February 1997 to design a system that could perform the equivalent of a telephone wiretap on Internet communications.
[November 22, 2000, 16:12]
Attorney general takes controversial Act on tour
News For example, where before, investigators were forced to get a different wiretap order every time a suspect changed cellphones, now, investigators can get a single wiretap that applies to the suspect and various phones he uses.
[August 21, 2003, 11:15]
Email wiretaps made easy
News The JavaScript attack is basically "a wiretap", in the words of Richard M Smith, chief technology officer of the Privacy Foundation. Internet security group Sophos recommends organisations turn off all "active content" such as HTML and JavaScript...
[February 5, 2001, 15:47]
Ruling bars police from in-car computer snooping
News After the system's spy capabilities were activated, "pressing the emergency button and activation of the car's airbags, instead of automatically contacting the company, would simply emit a tone over the already open phone line," the majority said...
[November 20, 2003, 9:20]
Law less likely to block Gmail
News California already requires third party consent under the state's anti-wiretap law, she said, and therefore it was not necessary to include the provision in her bill. Three non-profit groups have asked the California attorney general to review the...
[May 26, 2004, 9:20]
DoubleClick cases could reshape US law
News Many of the allegations have never been tried before, including one that DoubleClick violated the US federal wiretap statute, which is aimed at people who intercept or eavesdrop on telephone conversations.
[March 1, 2000, 11:51]
