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...Harvard says as its current service plans fast become outdated, it will consider some radical alternatives--including a University-wide voice-over IP Internet calling system--to ensure that UIS is not left behind by new communication trends...
Kinchla says UIS is currently testing voice-over IP technology with some members of the Faculty and staff. Voice-over IP calls are made over a data network instead of a voice network...
Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering H. T. Kung says he agrees that voice-over IP might be a good long distance alternative--on an adequately equipped network...
...problem is that the concept of "numbers dialed" doesn't really mean much on the Internet. The FBI and privacy advocates have been frantically searching for the best analogy: Are telephone numbers like IP addresses, such as 140.247.30.106, that are used only by computers and reveal relatively little? How about e-mail addresses, or URLs that describe what Web pages you frequent? Unfortunately, e-mail addresses and message content are stored in the same packets of data on the Net; access to one requires access to the other, and it should come as no surprise that the FBI is calling...
Worse, the government has no legal obligation to inform targets of a limited tap that they were watched until a case is brought to trial. Because the Carnivore system doesn't receive an IP address, Internet users can't detect if it were installed or whether they were targets. There are no checks or balances here: If the Carnivore system were violating legal limits and monitoring our activities, no one outside the FBI would know...