S.2281 Hearing (was: Justice Dept: Wiretaps...)

Mon Jun 21 21:42:40 UTC 2004

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> yes, agreed. moving toward the next technology of snooping is a good thing
> for DoJ.

You can request copies of the law enforcement needs documents at

http://www.askcalea.net/standards.html

Packet Surveillance Fundamental Needs Document (PSFND)
Electronic Surveillance Needs for Carrier Grade Voice over Packet Service (CGVoP)
Electronic Surveillance Needs for Public IP Network Access Service (PIPNAS)

If you don't like sending your name and email address to the FBI, try
Google.

The VOIP document is about 80 pages long, the IP document is about 100
pages.  However, the historical practice has been to revise and extend the
requirements.  So there may be additional needs which aren't included in
these documents.  They are very extensive needs, not just maintaining the
status quo.

Is "sound transmitted" call-content or call-identification action?  On
the other hand, is "silence" call-content or call-identification?  When
reporting every packet transmitted as call-identification information
really letting you partially peak into the content (sound/silence) without
the hassle of a content intercept order?  People have guessed the length
of people's passwords based on the number of packets, even though they
couldn't decrypt the packets.