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Police in Italy believe Skype is the new frontier for shady characters attempting to circumvent the law. More and more criminals are turning their backs on traditional phone services and embracing Internet-based phone calls. Skype, for instance, has an encryption system that it will not share with authorities (incapacitating call taps) and criminals know it. In one case, Milanese police heard, via wiretap, a suspected drug trafficker telling an accomplice to switch to Skype. Police can only hope they are allowed to tap online calls sooner rather than later. The dark side isn't going to wait for them to catch up. [From: BBC via Textually.org]
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Subscribe to commentsNoahFeb 21st 2009 1:26AM
As much as I'm against crime, police should absolutely NOT be allowed to intercept communications of Skype calls. That's one of our protections under the First Amendment, and the same amendment that protects journalists, law-abiding pornographers, photographers, etc. The moment the police are allowed to freely intercept otherwise-thought-private conversations online, will be the moment we can all say goodbye to our freedoms, and subsequently our safety as we know it. This will open the door to all sorts of police and government corruption that we certainly do not need. In fact, I'd much prefer crime over the police and governments compromising our privacy. This is the same controversy involving the Patriot Act. Recently some interesting information became public. Do you know who the NSA was instructed to exclusively spy on using warrent-less wire-taps? Journalists. Enough said.
RichardNov 2nd 2009 2:52AM
Except this is Italy and not America. They don't have a first amendment although I myself am all for privacy. The government has too much power over its citizens sometimes. Then again it is hard to argue exactly when it is too much. I mean if they catch criminals that is good but if they listen in on conversations with no evidence and just suspicion I would say that is going a bit too far. It is a complicated issue.