Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-21 Thread Nils Ketelsen
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 06:48:06PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: WASHINGTON--The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday lashed out at Internet telephony, saying the fast-growing technology could foster drug trafficking, organized crime and terrorism. But the change is real. I don't

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-21 Thread Curtis Maurand
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 10:25 PM To: Cade,Marilyn S - LGCRP Cc: Steven M. Bellovin; Jim Dempsey (E-mail); North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes Subject: RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists] On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Cade,Marilyn S - LGCRP

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-20 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sean Donelan writes: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: There's a lot more to it than that -- there's also access without involving telco personnel, and possibly the ability to do many more wiretaps (have you looked at the capacity requirements

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-20 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 10:25 PM To: Cade,Marilyn S - LGCRP Cc: Steven M. Bellovin; Jim Dempsey (E-mail); North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes Subject: RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds

Broadband? Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Michael Painter wrote: A coupla' years ago, the FCC defined Broadband as 200Kbps and above. Hmm different jurisdiction but Tiscali NTL seems to think broadband is as low as 100Kbps http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/3xfaster.html?code=ZZ-NL-11MR

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sean Donela n writes: In reality, CALEA is a funding bill; it has very little to do with technology. There's a lot more to it than that -- there's also access without involving telco personnel, and possibly the ability to do many more wiretaps (have you looked

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread David Lesher
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: Any provider of wire or electronic communication service, landlord, custodian or other person furnishing such facilities or technical assistance shall be compensated therefor by the applicant for

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: There's a lot more to it than that -- there's also access without involving telco personnel, and possibly the ability to do many more wiretaps (have you looked at the capacity requirements lately), but funding is certainly a large part of it.

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Hannigan, Martin
] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 1:49 AM To: Stephen Sprunk Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes Subject: Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists] On Fri, 18 Jun 2004

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Hannigan, Martin
Donelan Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 4:24 PM To: Steven M. Bellovin Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes Subject: Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists] On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: There's a lot more to it than that -- there's also

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Shultz) [Fri 18 Jun 2004, 21:42 CEST]: Pay for it? If I remember from CALEA, the providers pay for it (and eventually their customers), and as for broadband Internet providers... I'm guessing anyone who offers end user customers a circuit bigger than 53.333k. Pet

Re: Broadband? Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Stephen J. Wilcox [19/06/04 16:38 +0100]: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Michael Painter wrote: A coupla' years ago, the FCC defined Broadband as 200Kbps and above. Hmm different jurisdiction but Tiscali NTL seems to think broadband is as low as 100Kbps In India, it is anywhere over 64 Kbps,

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote: Sean, the capacity requirements aren't as straightforward as you are interpreting them. You are absolutely correct, they are not that straightforward. You should consult a telecommunications attorney with expertise in this area for legal advice.

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: Sean Donelan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:39 PM To: Hannigan, Martin Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes Subject: RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists] On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Hannigan

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Niels Bakker [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Shultz) [Fri 18 Jun 2004, 21:42 CEST]: Pay for it? If I remember from CALEA, the providers pay for it (and eventually their customers), and as for broadband Internet providers... I'm guessing anyone who offers end user

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Cade,Marilyn S - LGCRP wrote: Jim Dempsey's testimony at Senator Sununu's hearing is very interesting, and very educational on these issues. CALEA was not written for the IP world. When CALEA was being written, the Internet, IP and information services were all debated.

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread wrolf . courtney
I wish I wish I wish that the murdering $*#1! would spend their time messing with @#*@###! VoIP rather than anything else. Suresh

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Jeff Shultz
** Reply to message from Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:30:03 -1000 (HST) On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: : Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists : By Declan McCullagh : The Senate's action comes as the FCC considers a request submitted in

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Daniel Golding
On 6/18/04 3:30 PM, Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: {snip} Anyone know yet if they've they said who would have to pay for it, and what they specifically mean by broadband Internet providers? scott Well, that's the issue, now isn't it. It all comes down to money and

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Daniel Golding
On 6/18/04 3:41 PM, Jeff Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I admit to having some sympathy for the FBI... they're in the middle of getting ripped up, down and sideways over failures over Sept 11 and other things, and yet when they ask for more surveilance capabilities, they get ripped up,

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread John Curran
At 3:44 PM -0400 6/18/04, Daniel Golding wrote: There are three schools of thought here. One is that the VoIP should not be wiretapped at all. This seems a little unrealistic considering that we allow other calls to be tapped. The second school is that VoIP calls should be made no easier or

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Randy Bush
I admit to having some sympathy for the FBI... they're in the middle of getting ripped up, down and sideways over failures over Sept 11 and other things, yep. try http://www.caedefensefund.org/overview.html

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Daniel Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED] The amount of money the FBI would need to spend to tap a VoIP call is highest with the first option, intermediate with the second, and lowest with the last. Some services companies are really salivating for the chance to add CALEA hardware to VoIP

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Jeff Shultz
** Reply to message from Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:30:13 -0700 I admit to having some sympathy for the FBI... they're in the middle of getting ripped up, down and sideways over failures over Sept 11 and other things, yep. try

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Randy Bush
try http://www.caedefensefund.org/overview.html Hmmm, but they aren't biased, are they? everything is biased one way or the other in this world. i also searched the ny times. not a pretty looking state of affairs. randy

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Tapping a SONET or Ethernet link isn't tough, and real-time decoding of packets up to OC12 speeds was doable on COTS PCs several years ago. One US telco built such software specifically to comply with CALEA when the FBI inevitably woke up; it

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Rob Nelson
One thing is very clear, however; if the industry doesn't come up with a working solution first, we will certainly have something unworkable shoved down our throats by Congress, the FCC, and the FBI. On the other hand, since you'll have to wait for 10 years in line behind all the other

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Tapping a SONET or Ethernet link isn't tough, and real-time decoding of packets up to OC12 speeds was doable on COTS PCs several years ago. One US telco built such software specifically to comply

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Scott Francis
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:41:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ** Reply to message from Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:30:03 -1000 (HST) On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: : Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists : By Declan McCullagh

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Randy Bush
they don't need more surveillance capabilities as much as they need to better utilize what they've already got. More laws aren't the answer to lack of success enforcing what's already on the books. We should not be building surveillance technology into standards. Law enforcement was not

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread David Lesher
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: I'm told that most CALEA warrants only authorize a pen register, not an actual tap. Pen registers are trivial to implement, since the provider's software undoubtedly has an option to produce CDRs for billing or planning

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Stephen Sprunk wrote: I'm told that most CALEA warrants only authorize a pen register, not an CALEA and wiretaps are independent subjects. You can have CALEA obligations even if you never, ever implement a single wiretap. On the other hand you may need to implement many