Security Implications of Applying the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act to Voice over IP
Steven M. Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Ernest F. Brickell, Clinton C. Brooks, Vinton G. Cerf, Whitfield Diffie, Susan M. Landau, Jon N. Peterson, John R. Treichler · 2006
For many people, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) looks like a nimble way of using a computer to make phone calls. Download the software, pick an identifier and then wherever there is an Internet connection, you can make a phone call. From this perspective, it makes perfect sense that anything that can be done with the telephone system — such as E911 and the graceful accommodation of wiretapping — should be able to be done readily with VoIP as well.