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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Trying to catch dust
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I understand what the feds are trying to do by insisting that net based phone calls be traceable - they are trying to keep up with shifting technology. The fact of the matter is that they are grasping at dust. It's not as if VOIP is my only option for net communication. I can use various IM systems, I can use IRC. I can create my own chat system easily enough as well; there was an Opentalk demo of a peer to peer chat system 4 years ago, slapped together in a few hours by one of our tech sales people. It's simply too easy to establish a communications channel on the net. The feds are going to have to accept reality, and realize this....
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