<<http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_08.php#003876>>
FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design for Internet Services Tech Mandates Force Companies to Build Backdoors into Broadband, VoIP Washington, DC - Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a release announcing its new rule expanding the reach of the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The ruling is a reinterpretation of the scope of CALEA and will force Internet broadband providers and certain voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers to build backdoors into their networks that make it easier for law enforcement to wiretap them. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has argued against this expansion of CALEA in several rounds of comments to the FCC on its proposed rule. ----- "How noble libertarianism, in its majestic equality, that both rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the privately owned streets (without paying), sleeping under the privately owned bridges (without paying), and coercing bread from its rightful owners!" --Anatole France _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
