US Gov Fund VoIP Tapping
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Feds fund VoIP tapping research
Feds fund VoIP tapping research
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Apparently the US government is concerned enough about not being able to track VoIP to source, that it is doling out $300K of taxpayers money for somebody to work out where calls are originating, even if anonomised. Personally I have my doubts that they can track all calls down to origin if the user really wants to hide
Apparently the US government is concerned enough about not being able to track VoIP to source, that it is doling out $300K of taxpayers money for somebody to work out where calls are originating, even if anonomised. Personally I have my doubts that they can track all calls down to origin if the user really wants to hide
At the moment, two Skype users who wish to conceal the fact that they're chatting can direct their computers to bounce their conversation off a commercial anonymizing service, sometimes called a proxy service. Such services are offered by FindNot.com, Proxify.us and Anonymizer.com.
Wang discovered he could embed a unique, undetectable signature in Skype packets and then identify that signature when they reached their destination. The technique works in much the same way as a radioactive marker that a patient swallows, permitting doctors to monitor its progress through the digestive system.
- Y! MyWeb
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Now if you were borrowing your neighbors wifi it would seem to mess things up a bit.
The US govenrment has had a fixation...
...for years about listening to all phone calls.
Even down to two large bases in UK, one for intercepting land-lines and one for intercepting mobiles. Presumably they are going to need expanded facilities for VoIP.
But basically if you do not want tracked, and are aware of tracking going on, you just adjust your telephone use to reflect that.