On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:37:02 -0300
Fernando Cassia <fcassia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Daniel B. Thurman
<dant(a)cdkkt.com>
wrote:
>
> [perhaps off topic, but interesting security implications?]
>
> I wonder if backdoors are installed to comply with
> government & law enforcement requirements. In the US,
> Sen. Jay Rockefeller proposes to allow the POTUS to shutdown
> public & private Internet for any reason they want?
>
> Well back to Skype in the news:
>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/skype_trojan_source_code/
>
> Fact or hype?
>
> FWIW,
> Dan
Welcome to the Real World.... all your calls are belong to THE MAN
(NSA)...
"SAFARI C(Cubed) is the only totally integrated carrier class VoIP
switch that incorporates -- at no additional cost -- all of the
components that make up the distributed voice switching
infrastructure, eliminating the need for operators to purchase,
maintain, upgrade and regression test separate Call Management
Servers, Media Gateways, *Call Detail Records (Record Keeping)
Servers*, Announcement Servers, Signaling Gateways, Ethernet Switches
and *Legal Intercept (CALEA) servers*."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcemen...
FC
)
Consider the advances in computers since that time (1980) and
extrapolate the surveillance capabilities that the book claims to today.
Steve
the advances