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Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician and the wiretapping whistle-blower, whose allegations that his former employer wiretapped the internet on behalf of the government, largely holing up the the lawsuit against AT&T have visited Washington to persuade Lawmakers not to deliver a blow to the law suite.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the surveillance bill today.
But according to TPM Muckraker’s Spencer Ackerman, Klein is finally getting the media and other attesion that have evaded him for last two years, ever since he revealed the new about the secret room 641A. The New York Times also carries an article
Here is a Video of Mark Klein outs the NSA on Olbermann;

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Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

WASHINGTON–A group of privacy advocates and technology companies today filed court papers to challenge a ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, saying it overstepped its authority by requiring Internet telephony providers to allow wiretapping by law enforcement agencies.
The groups, including advocacy groups the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, argued that an FCC’s ruling on Voice over Internet Protocol could introduce security vulnerabilities into such services, could drive up costs for customers, and could open up additional Internet applications, such as instant messaging, to wiretap rules.

The August 2004 FCC ruling requires VoIP providers, by early 2007, to build in technology that complies with a 1994 telephone wiretapping law called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). But adding such functionality to VoIP could introduce security holes by increasing the complexity of the code, and it could open up vulnerabilities to sophisticated hackers, said Susan Landau, a Sun Microsystems engineer.

"What the FCC rule does is say, ‘Build surveillance technology into Internet Protocol,’" she said. "We feel that’s very dangerous and weakens national security rather than strengthens it."

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It seems that VOIP Wiretapping has irked some people and others taking it in stride. I am on the second group! The reaction in the legal community—and technology world—is decidedly mixed. One expert says the agency is merely changing its interpretation of existing wiretapping laws to include the Internet among other, more established telecommunications channels, like wire-line and wireless phones. Others lawyers and experts say that the move is questionable—and may be regulatory overkill by the FCC.
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