Furor Grows Over Internet Bugging

[mandy]

A recent government order mandating that voice over internet protocol services must include the same government-approved wiretapping capabilities as traditional phone companies threatens to cripple peer-to-peer telephone innovation, according to new warnings from civil liberties groups and an internet telephony pioneer.

The ruling appears to pull in the best-known P2P telephone service, Skype, ...

full article: http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0..._tophead_1

[stardust]

Nasty times we live in.