CALEA Watch: ISP's Get to Pick Up the Tab

Wed May 3 19:49:37 UTC 2006

This is nothing but a back door tax to stick your
customers, who will have to pay for them being spied
on in the first place, NDA not withstanding....

-Henry

--- Fergie <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:

> 
> Just wanted to bring your attention to an FCC
> decsion today
> that will most likely touch your operational lives
> in a big way.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Broadband providers and Internet phone companies
> will have to
> pick up the tab for the cost of building in
> mandatory wiretap
> access for police surveillance, federal regulators
> ruled Wednesday.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> More:
> http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6067971.html
> 
> Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - ferg
> 
> 
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg at netzero.net or fergdawg at sbcglobal.net
>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
> 
> 