eWeek in what is more of an editorial than a news story suggests a sane approach to VoIP regulation, largely saying give the government the ability to VoIPtap.
I agree, but wonder how P2P systems will be impacted or really, what impact they will have on the market.
Andy
It’s going to be interesting to watch if Skype which fully encrypts discussion (does it encrypt text as well?) will remain a fringe player or whether they will push to become legit in the space like an ATT, Vonage or Packet8. First things.. they need incoming calls from non-Skype.
I can’t see them giving up the encryption bit though, especially seeing how the internet is the network via user machines. I also can’t see them granting a backdoor to law-enforcement…
At least for the present Skypeout is not encrypted. Indeed, in their forum the official response is a sarcastic, “PSTN is not encrypted anyway”. Nevermind that there are legal privacy protections in PSTN and that the Supernode can collect CDR like information.