Skype Tapping

As I learned in Media 321, the government has had such a difficult time keeping laws up to date with the ever changing world of the media. We all know that there are stringent rules for police when intercepting phone conversations but when it comes to the Internet the government has not kept up with the fast changes.
Terrorists, and other shady organizations are using the Internet as a safer communication space for their criminal behaviors. According to an article on MacWorld.com, Skype Calls' Immunity to Police Phone Tapping Threatened, the European law enforcement is attempting to gain access to the Skype network. "Police officers in Milan say organized crime, arms and drugs traffickers, and prostitution rings are turning to Skype and other systems of VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) telephony in order to frustrate investigators," as stated in the article.

http://www.macworld.com/article/138936/2009/02/skypeimmunity.html

One major issue that governments are having is actually gaining access to the VOIP networks. The old school days of putting a bug in a phone are long gone. In order to gain access to these networks much work must be done to actually figure out a way to get into them.
Eurojust is the organization dedicated to organizing and correlating this issue across all of the 27 countries that make up Europe. Below is the Eurojust website if anyone wants to know about their organization.

http://www.eurojust.europa.eu/

As technology increases when where the governments be able to keep up? Technology has changed so much, just within the last few decades, and the pace becomes faster and faster, and because of this governments across the world are having severe issues keeping up with the changes. Catching terrorists, drug dealers, and prostitution rings would be a great step preventing their next steps. Unfortunately, right now law makers can not keep up with the fast changing Internet. Personally, I find it disturbing that police are not even allowed to get a warrant to intercept criminal activities facilitated through VOIP networks. Then again, the ability to access them is difficult to figure out in the first place.