New Peer-2-Peer VoIP encrypted software

[heyUthere]

I just downloaded CAMELOID. Free linux open source VoIP software. They really went all out on the encryption part. There is so much information about it on their site: http://cameloid.sourceforge.net

I just thought people like you would want to know about.

Yes it's a post by a newmember, but it doesn't seem like spam to me !

I had a look and it seems like it could be very useful. Also it comes from SourceForge which is a good sign. Here's just a little bit of info.

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Following its release, law enforcement identified a number of capabilities absent from Issue 1. Since that time, CableLabs has actively sought law enforcement input into its technical specification process to ensure that law enforcement's need to intercept communications was addressed adequately. The recent release of Issue 4 of the PacketCable Electronic Surveillance Specification represents the culmination of the cooperative endeavor between CableLabs & Law enforcement in establishing a set of technical requirements to facilitate law enforcement's future use of court-authorized electronic surveillance.

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Police can now wiretap all Internet phone calls on Cox Communications' network, kicking off a new era for law enforcement. The cable & broadband provider turned to security specialist VeriSign to supply the know-how, announced Monday. Law enforcement officers can now eavesdrop on every call made by Cox's nearly 1 million VoIP phone subscribers. Police can already tap calls on 12 of Cox's 13 phone markets because they rely on traditional telephone equipment equipped with eavesdropping abilities. But in December, Cox deployed VoIP, a much cheaper alternative that uses the unregulated Internet.

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Lots of companys involved in this, check out the long list !


StevieO

[Vikorr]

My isp just made VoIP available. I've tried the software version (seeing my modem is a VoIP modem), and it doesn't seem quite the quality of a phone call (and I've enabled QoS to it's best setting in my modem).

Maybe the hardware version is better.

Hey, Thanks for the tip U. I look forward to downloading it and the site is cool. HahA I like the doc..
YOUR QUICK GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING CALEA YOU KNOW, WITHOUT ALL THE LEGAL JARGON AND THE POLITENESS OF SUGAR-COATED COMPANY PRESS RELEASES ABOUT "LAWFUL INTERCEPTION".

one part

Originally Posted by Cameloid Site

HOW DID CALEA GET IT'S START?
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FBI Director Louis Freeh, at the time, Congressional testimony in August 1994 about
emerging technologies frustrating surveillance efforts. Congress responded by making
telecommunications services rewire their networks to provide police with guaranteed access
for wiretaps. Legislators granted the FCC a great deal of leeway in defining what types of
companies must comply, another factor was that CALEA was made as Generic as possible.

WHAT IS SUBJECT TO CALEA?
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CALEA was written knowing that there would be new technologies for telecommunications.
So what qualifys as a telecommunications carrier? The question is what does not? Short
and simple, Everything. Any service, device or software that enable people to communicate
in a large medium or peer-2-peer weather you are in the U.S. or not. "They" repeatedly
assured people that the Internet would be excluded. Yet the FBI/FCC betrayed that promise
now and stepped beyond the law, demanding that Internet software be redesigned to facilitate
eavesdropping. Internet broadband providers? Yes. We can not stress enough, Everything!

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE THEY REVISED CALEA?
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Too many times, do not bother keeping track, you will lose count. DOES IT MATTER? No, of
course not. In fact, CALEA is more an Idea then is it an act that must be required for
everyone to cooperate. Originally it was for call forwarding, call waiting and cellular
phones, then there was VoIP (people are still hopeful that CALEA will not catch up) but as
the future of telephony it is too late. Now today we are dealing with "THE NEW CALEA" for
information services for example VoIP software, internet and etc. CALEA will always find a Way.....

http://cameloid.sourceforge.net/docs/whatisit.txt

pretty cool.