VoIP decision means Skype now illegal

[harvey007]

Source: Shanghai Daily

THE Chinese regulator has declared Internet phone services other than those provided by China Telecom and China Unicom as illegal, which is expected to make services like Skype unavailable in the country.

Read more: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=460268&type=Business

[hlthe2b]

1. ugggh....

:spank: But you did get me to read it...

[Lasher]

2. VoIP can make it difficult to eavesdrop.

But with the government camped out at the point where analog voice and TDM convert to IP (China Telecom & China Unicom sites), it's easier to achieve. Oligopoly perpetuation probably the primary motivation, but not the only one.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Most VoIP is unencrypted. To me, the main reason is money. -nt

[Lasher]

7. I said money was the primary motivation. Encryption has nothing to do with my point.

Think about extraction.

[stlsaxman]

15. Skype is fully encrypted- point to point.

at least they were last time i checked.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. (Does some quick research) Zounds, you're right.

I'm more used to the innards of SIP, IAX, H.323, RTP etc.

All right, that probably looked like letter soup for you. Or not?

[high density]

20. Yes they use AES

It seems kind of like a necessity given the peer-to-peer nature of their system.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. No matter what the name, Chicoms are still Chicoms

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. What a cute nickname.

:eyes:

[leveymg]

10. "Nokos" is another goody.

"Noko nukes", rolls right off the tongue.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Indeed, equally cute.

:eyes:

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. Its old school...as am I

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. I could list many things, people, and ideas that are "old school".

But I won't.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

17. Ted Kennedy was old school...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. Not who I was thinking about.

[Psephos]

22. Yours is kinda cute, too. ;) n/t

[liberal N proud]

4. And getting a cell phone you can use in China is outrageously expensive

I had one for two weeks and used it no more than 15 minutes a day, the cost was over $600 for the two weeks.

My boss went through the roof.

[onehandle]

8. In China. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

9. AT&T...

will get the same thing pushed here- just give them time.

[karynnj]

11. Back in the late 1990s, they wanted it to pay part of the access fee

that all landlines making interstate calls did - has that happened yet?

[boppers]

19. So, what about google voice? gTalk? Yahoo chat?

There's a whole lot of products that carry voice over the internet besides Skype....

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

21. Ironically, Skype is the hardest to block.

There's no easy way to identify all the many ways a Skype peer connects to the P2P network. It's a nightmare for network admins who are told to block it.

[JCMach1]

23. Skype is also 'banned' in the UAE... most people I know use it!

It is virtually impossible to stop.

[grahamhgreen]

24. what is the penalty if caught?

[JCMach1]

25. Jail Time

http://usa2uae.com/index.php/?s=voip

Although this was people selling it for a profit...

Note, they are also protecting government telephone monopolies...

[grahamhgreen]

26. Yikes! I heard they also banned Blackberries

Possibly because both are encrypted...