New discoveries in VoIP tapping research
Federal police can stop fretting about criminals using VoIP to mask their communications with proxy services as new tapping methods of VoIP are coming to light. (Proxy services are offered by FindNot.com, Proxify.us and Anonymizer.com) George Mason University researchers claim they have found a new way to trace Net-phone calls and would like to receive a $307,436 federal grant to finish their research. It doesn’t sound like they can listen to the conversation, but they can figure out who is on both ends thanks to the research completed thus far. Get ready for the battle of the VoIP programmers versus eavesdroppers!
The federal government is funding the development of a prototype surveillance tool by George Mason University researchers who have discovered a novel way to trace Internet phone conversations. Their project is designed to let police identify whether suspects under surveillance have been communicating through voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)–information that would be unavailable today if people choose to communicate surreptitiously. The eavesdropping technique already has been shown to work with Skype, the researchers say.
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