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IETF Rejects Wiretapping Plan
News The IETF was considering designing a protocol to allow wiretapping of telephone calls made over the Internet. The Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) has voted overwhelmingly to reject plans for a global standard for snooping on Net telephone...
[November 11, 1999, 12:13]
Wiretapping May Cost ISPs £17m - Report
News Wiretapping the Internet -- in accordance with the government's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill -- will cost Britain's 400 ISPs at least £17m in the first year, with the total cost to both ISPs and the government rising...
[April 26, 2000, 10:17]
Security, Wiretapping, And The Internet
White Papers Wiretaps have been used since the invention of the telegraph and have been a legal element of the US law enforcement arsenal for more than a quarter century. In keeping with law enforcement's efforts to keep laws current with changing technologies...
[June 7, 2006, 1:00]
Wiretap Cover-up Rings Privacy Alarm Bells
News The Los Angeles Police Department and district attorney's office are covering up widespread and illegal wiretapping, the Los Angeles public defender's office charged Wednesday, in the latest round of a growing legal battle that's piqued the...
[October 22, 1999, 10:16]
Technologists Assail Federal Net-tapping Rules
News A 21-page study to be released on Tuesday says it's impossible for the government to expect all products that use voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's September 2005 requirement mandating...
[June 13, 2006, 10:25]
Push To Talk Heads For Wi-Fi
News In the same document, the FCC reiterated its belief that push-to-talk calls are subject to federal wiretapping requirements. The systems being developed would not interconnect with the public switched telephone network and would therefore not be...
[August 12, 2004, 9:35]
US Cyber Spies Want More Rights To Snoop On Foreigners
News The proposed law amounts to a rewrite of the 1978 wiretapping law called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa). It would also allow for blanket approval of current and future electronic surveillance programmes - a departure from the...
[July 27, 2006, 12:05]
PGP Pioneer Pushes VoIP Encryption
News You can have point-and-click wiretapping," he said. Claiming that terrorists and drug criminals will use VoIP, the Bush administration has demanded that broadband Internet providers provide backdoors for government wiretapping.
[August 15, 2006, 16:25]
FBI Seeks Power To Eavesdrop On Net
News Under existing federal wiretapping laws, the FBI already has the ability to seek a court order to conduct surveillance of any broadband user though its DCS1000 system, previously called Carnivore. Digital wiretapping
[July 29, 2003, 14:21]
VoIP Evades Surveillance
News One proposed solution being mulled over by the FCC is to give wiretapping responsibility to broadband providers, whose high-speed Web connections are necessary to make VoIP calls. Skype's Zennstrom said wiretapping laws need to be rewritten to...
[February 16, 2004, 10:15]
VoIP Evades Surveillance
Talkback One proposed solution being mulled over by the FCC is to give wiretapping responsibility to broadband providers, whose high-speed Web connections. You say. You guys are a well respected, technology savvy company so perhaps you can tell me where I...
[February 16, 2004, 11:26]
Webcast: Voice Over IP Security
White Papers For example, the media channel is subject to a variety of attacks, including wiretapping and media manipulation. It's important to understand that VoIP is vulnerable to specific types of attacks. The signaling is also vulnerable to attack, which...
[October 31, 2008, 10:43]
FBI Kills Off Carnivore
Talkback Currently, FBI needs no warrant for wiretapping against "terror suspects. This Reuters' article is a misleading. The reality is the whole network in America has been growing into "Carnivore" by getting forced cooperation of ISPs with law enforcement .
[January 19, 2005, 17:04]
Homeland Security Communicatoins: No Compromise
White Papers This webcast explains who needs to protect conversations, what information needs to be protected, how information is compromised and what the consequences are, how conversations can be protected, why secure communications is crucial and a demo on...
[July 16, 2008, 1:20]
Senate Won't Quiz Telcos About NSA Spying
News A prominent Republican senator backed away on Tuesday from his pledge to question executives from telecommunications companies that have allegedly been cooperating with the government's secret wiretapping program.
[June 7, 2006, 11:00]
FBI Wants To Tap High-speed Internet
News A far-reaching proposal from the FBI, made public on Friday, would require all US broadband Internet providers, including cable modem and DSL companies, to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police.
[March 15, 2004, 9:10]
Dutch Government Acknowledges Echelon Spy Network
News The Dutch Parliament has launched an inquiry into international communications wiretapping following the revelation, reports Radio Netherlands. The Dutch government has publicly acknowledged the existence of the covert satellite surveillance...
[January 24, 2001, 16:37]
Attacks Silence Privacy Concerns
News Law-enforcement agencies in recent months have found themselves on the defensive over wiretapping and other intelligence-gathering technology, with Congress and the courts increasingly backing demands for greater accountability and restraint.
[September 18, 2001, 9:16]
Google Denies FBI Interest In Gmail
News Critics immediately criticised EPIC's request as a publicity stunt because the nonprofit likened Google's Web-based email service to the FBI's controversial Carnivore wiretapping utility and the Pentagon's discontinued "Orwellian Total Information...
[April 30, 2004, 11:25]
PGP Creator Launches Voice Encryption For Windows
News Zimmermann said he believed Zfone would not be affected by US wiretapping legislation -- the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement (CALEA) -- as this law only applies to service providers, and only the end users of Zfone will have access...
[May 23, 2006, 13:15]
