Intelligence Bureau wants VoIP services banned in India

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IB asks govt to block all net telephony services - India - NEWS - The Times of India
If DoT were to implement the IB directive, it will impact hundreds of thousands of consumers who use the internet to make extremely low cost calls to phones and free calls to computers across the globe. Telcos such as MTNL in Delhi and Mumbai and many leading ISPs offer internet telephony services.

In addition, any consumer with internet access can use services from hundreds of companies such as Skype, Google, Yahoo! and Window Live, amongst others.


lmao we are worse than china
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just as i thought you all cannot believe that this is happeningadmin move this thread to voip or net neutrality forums
 
someone should sue ib for violating fundamental rights.look how gullible the Op is.why track?.you cannot track skype as it is encrypted and is p2p.next would be track all money.
 
How would call centers make a living then 🙂I'm sure they are a bigger lobby then individual cusomters dont you think.
 

The article was rather full of BS and factual inaccuracies.

Firstly, VOIP (phone-to-phone) is not allowed anyway which is why there is no equivalent of Vonage etc in India.

This is also why Skype et al will never offer India as one of their free-calling countries - although it's not bad at about 0.05€/min anyway - comparable to calling Russia - and why you could never get a SkypeIn number for India.

Secondly, the government cites that Skype has shared its codes with the US and China: it has not. It never has. It has shared source-code with itself in China (Skype?????????-??????????), much in the same way that an Indian subsidiary would receive necessary source code to build a project for a foreign entity. It just so happens that, like India, China requires foreign entities to have a Chinese partner. Skype does not have any such subsidiaries or partners in India.

One would assume that Skype would have given a special authentication code/algorithm to China, not the one that the rest of us use. To do otherwise would be ludicrous.

I think it was Austria who took another route and developed a trojan to get around the encryption.

But in any case, if the government did end up blocking Skype for the reasons of encryption, they would have to block ALL forms of secure transport: HTTPS, FTPS, SSH etc, which would be a big annoyance for people like me who need to do things like access their internet banking facilities overseas.
 
would they be able to block connectivity through tunnel (or whatever it is called). 😛
 
would they be able to block connectivity through tunnel (or whatever it is called). 😛

I doubt it. Though you would have to have a machine at the other end to tunnel to. Whether the VOIP part of it would work is another thing... would have to check that you can forward the sound device and all that.

Might be possible, but might also be an adventure 🙂
 
govt needs to ban itself[COLOR=\"Silver\"]

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[/COLOR]and the govt can block
Thousands lose cheap calls as Du blocks Skype - Technology - ArabianBusiness.com[COLOR=\"Silver\"]

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[/COLOR]our freedom is now comparable to islamic countries

You can't realistically compare country to country. First and foremost, most Arab countries are not democracies.

Technologically, yes, it is possible to block Skype, and Etisalat has been blocking Skype and other VoIP applications for years. It is a major PITA.

As it happens, Etisalat is the state owned monopoly of the UAE, and charges a bomb for anything. Calling the UAE from Skype also costs an arm and a leg too, so considering the amount of International Business going on in the Free-Zones, you can kind of understand why those telcos wouldn't want to "give away" their revenue stream to the likes of Skype.

At least in India, it would be theoretically possible to vote out the guys in power - not so in the UAE.
 

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