LIFE - Links

Some interesting LI related links

• Electronic Frontiers Australia
• Internet Service Provider (ISP) filtering
• ABC Radio National "Conroy's clean feed"

Some links with diverse points of view on the Australian Federal Government's proposed ISP filter (Accessed March 2009)

• Upson, S., "Wiretapping Woes", IEEE Spectrum, May 2007, Accessed March 2009

  An interesting article discussing the difficulties of interception of peer-to-peer communication. Many of the issues identified form part of our research programme.

• Prevelakis, V. and Spinellis, D. "The Athens Affair", IEEE Spectrum, July 2007, Accessed March 2009

  Another interesting article from IEEE Spectrum, this time detailing the history of how a Greek LI system was compromised and confidential calls of senior government members were illegally intercepted without the telco's knowledge.

• IETF Raven Discussion List, Accessed May 2003
• IETF Network Working Group "IETF Policy on Wiretapping", May 2000, Accessed March 2009

IESG Discussion threads that show the reasoning behind the IETF's decision not to pursure an LI track and the resulting informational RFC2804.

• Baker, F., Foster, B., Sharp, C., Cisco Systems, "Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept In IP Networks", IETF RFC3924, October 2004, Accessed March 2009

  Cisco's architecture for providing LI in IP networks. It has some similarities to the ETSI architecture including an administrative interface, mediation device, and interception access points.

• Escudero-Pascual, A., Hosein, I., "Questioning lawful access to traffic data", Communications of the ACM, vol 47(3), 2004, Accessed 20 July 2007

  Expresses concern that technology neutral policy in LI provides governments and LEAs with additioal powers through technological ambiguity. Queries the desirability of the same LI legislation applying to traditional telephony as to IP networks.

• Independent Business Analysis Pty Ltd, Accessed July 20, 2007

An Australian consultancy with specialist skills in LI.

• Australian Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (1998). Bills Digest No. 67 1997-1998, Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill 1997. 28 October, Accessed 29 May 2003

  A useful summary of the LI obligations of carriers (including ISPs).

• CALEA (2003). AskCALEA - Frequently Asked Questions. 21 March, Accessed 3 June 2003

  An FAQ for he USA Federal Communications Assistance for law enforcement Act (CALEA)

• Electronic Privacy Information Center (1998). Approvals for Federal Pen Registers and Trap and Trace Devices 1987-1998. 15 Feb 2002, Accessed 28 May 2003

  Some (very out of date) statistics as to US Federal wiretaps.

• Foundation for Information Policy Research (1999). Interception of Communications in the United Kingdom: A response to the Home Office consultation paper (CM 4368 JUNE 1999). London, Foundation for Information Policy Research, p. 2

  A paper expressing concern caused by the extension of telephony LI policy into IP interception.