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August 08, 2005

Asterisk -Wiretap backdoor

I don't think so... at least not for the home users...

ISPs and some VoIP providers will be forced to build backdoors into their networks that make it easier for law enforcement to run wiretaps. What does this mean for asterisk? I suppose not much unless you are a VOIP provider using it. What kind of a backdoor do you think asterisk could have. Open source seems a bit frightening when it comes to topics like this.

This follows a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule that expands the reach of the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), says the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Under CALEA, passed in the early 1990s, all telephone providers must build "tappability" into their networks, but it expressly ruled out information services such as broadband, says the EFF, stressing that it’s argued against the expansion to the FCC.

Now, this tappability extends to broadband providers, says the foundation.

“Practically, what this means is that the government will be asking broadband providers - as well as companies that manufacture devices used for broadband communications – to build insecure backdoors into their networks, imperiling the privacy and security of citizens on the Internet. It also hobbles technical innovation by forcing companies involved in broadband to redesign their products to meet government requirements.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is also asking airlines to build similar backdoors into phone and data networks on airplanes, says the EFF, adding:

“EFF and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) submitted joint comments to the FCC arguing against the DOJ's unprecedented and sweeping new technology design mandates and anticipatory wiretapping system.

“The FCC's new proposal to expand CALEA to airline broadband illustrates the fallacy of law enforcement's rationale for its CALEA request. The DOJ takes the position that broadband has ‘substantially replaced’ the local telephone exchange, but this claim is reduced to the point of absurdity aboard an airplane and opens the door for CALEA to cover just about anything.”

As Asterisk goes. I do not believe it will be an open source backdoor. Think of the privacy implications. So for the mainstream provider that is using asterisk as a backend, the module would have to be custom made and compiled. Think of the implications of having a few hundred different implementations of the backdoor out there. It would be a free for all... Just my two cents.
The original article can be found here.

Posted by Sean at August 8, 2005 05:08 PM

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