NSA & Spy Free VOIP Soon Available

by moonwolf | April 29, 2008 at 11:38 am | 277 views | 5 comments

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With paranoid uncontrolled Western governments willfully spying on their own citizens in violation of their constitutional rights, it is timely that companies like GNU will soon be deploying free, easily accessible technology for individuals to protect themselves against these unwarranted intrusions.

GNU Telephony Secure Calling is intended to make it both possible, and easy, for individuals, private organizations, and public institutions to deploy secure realtime voice and video communications (VoIP) both in closed and openly accessible networks, and to do so in a manner which helps make passive and warrantless communication intercept of private communication a thing of the past. In doing so, we intend to help both national governments and private corporations comply with their obligations to the general public and with national laws in many countries which explicitly forbid such practices. With the introduction of GNU SIP Witch, the GNU Telephony Secure Calling Project has entered it's second phase.

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theunderminer

at 17:01 on April 29th, 2008

good stuff:

Nice one! I was waiting for something like this to help us to keep them gov't wolves out of our business.

eastvanray

at 19:57 on April 29th, 2008

This would be great...but my involvement with an encryption company a few years ago leads me to think otherwise. The encryption this company had developed was so good that it was virtually uncrackable. Know what? The US government demanded a back door key (and this was a Canadian company!) and pre-911. So if you want to believe that this product will give you secure calls ok but I wouldn't be betting on it.

Rhonda J Mangus

at 00:30 on April 30th, 2008

good stuff:

moonwolf, I like this story. It's good stuff. Yet, I think I have to agree with eastvanray.

dyfet

at 20:47 on May 1st, 2008

There is no "company" to shakedown or goto to ask to put a backdoor in, there is no entity controlling the code because it is all freely published in full and complete form and with full rights offered for anyone to use and modify as they need and see fit. If there is some concern about a specific algorith, it can be replaced. If there is concern about default keysizes, they can be changed.