Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head

Re:Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head by agranig on Sunday January 16, 2011 @12:39AM (#2108784)

It's a matter of fact that every vendor of telco equipment has to provide a lawful-interception interface when doing business at a serious scale (say, enabling services for >10k end-users). That holds true in countries with questionable political systems, but even more so in Central/Western Europe and especially in the US. It's really just how the technology is handled and used.

Regarding conspiracy theories: there's a popular saying in the telco/network industry, going like "Nobody has ever been fired for buying Cisco equipment". It's just a matter of taking personal risks for your CTO.

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Re:Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head by agranig on Sunday January 16, 2011 @01:06AM (#2108816)

We at Sipwise implement VoIP switches at major ISPs in Europe, and the most uncomfortable question, which is ALWAYS asked (mostly just as a side-question, like "Btw, I suppose you support it anyways, so how does your solution work in that regards?") is the one of lawful interception.

There's a specification defined by the PacketCable consortium (http://www.cablelabs.com/packetcable/downloads/specs/PKT-SP-...), and I'd say that almost every major vendor has implemented it in one way or the other in order to be deployed at cable ISPs.

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