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<<<...“During the 1990s, to help law enforcement and the FBI more effectively carry out wiretap operations, especially in view of the emerging digital voice and wireless networks at the time, the US Congress passed CALEA in 1994 [1]. This act provides broad guidelines to network operators on how to assist the LEAs in setting up interceptions and the types of data to be delivered. CALEA does not, as many believe, provide specific implementation directives on interception. More recently, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandated that CALEA be extended to include interception of publicly-available broadband networks and Voice over IP services that are interconnected to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).” Here is the link for CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) website if you want to learn more about it.

 Whats latest on voip security?

I am not sure how many of you know/remember phil zimmerman. He is the same old guy who invented PGP ( Pretty Good Privacy), which we use in every day of our communications knowingly or unknowingly. He was then arrested by the US government and was trialed for 5 years. He is back now and with a good news for VoIP users. He has come up with a software suite called zphone, which is encryption for your voice data on voip calls. Right now this works only between PC to PC. In future if this becomes another break through like PGP and all network element providers like Linksys, etc., start implementing them on different network elements like switches, ATAs etc., then this can also reach your analog telephone.