ok, i DARE someone to tell me the RIAA isn't helping to fund this one. If this law gets passed, you might as well say goodbye to free speech and every other consitutional right we have.

http://news.com.com/2100-1028-5172948.html

Ehh thats in america only...i hope..

As the article said ...

"The origins of this debate date back to when the FBI persuaded Congress to enact the controversial CALEA. Louis Freeh, FBI director at the time, testified in 1994 that emerging technologies such as call forwarding, call waiting and cellular phones had frustrated surveillance efforts."

the FBI has been requesting expanded wiretap for A DECADE. And will continue to ask until they get it. Given 9-11 and Atty. General John "Rights? You don't need no stinkin' rights!" Ashcroft they might get a lil taste this trip.

Unfortunately for the stupid FBI, it's a digital age. Routine cryptography makes wiretap a dead technology and NSA [who has all the crypto experts] and FBI don't play well together [as is true of almost any two government agencies].

Eventually it will be easy to encrypt everything you do - cell phone calls, email, P2P downloads - anything the Feds would care about anyway. Why? Cause if the Feds can tap it so can hackers.

-MF