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Linux Based IP Videophone

Posted by michael on from the phone-of-the-future-ha-ha-ha dept.

Meltoast writes "As reported in Communications Convergence Magazine, Innomedia has launched the MTA 3368 IP Videophone. It's 4-inch TFT color LCD can deliver video up to 768 kpbs and with a Linux based OS it supports video streaming, gaming, IM, HTTP, SNMP, TFTP, FTP and Telnet."

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  1. TCP stack? by gazbo · · Score: 4, Interesting
    IIRC, the TCP stack in Linux is what is known as a "trusting stack" rather than the widely used BSD stack which is a "hostile stack". Now, this is what makes Linux so fast at packet handling, but is also why the Linux stack is so tied to iptables/ipchains/$firewall.

    In order to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks on an IP videophone running on Linux, you'd have to have such a stateful firewall running on the phone - wouldn't this be a little heavyweight for a phone? Or have they modified Linux to use the BSD TCP-stack?

  2. Yet another... by mikeophile · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Overhyped, overpriced videophone that won't sell.

    If you have a broadband connection and a laptop, why on earth would you need this? The thing doesn't even use encryption.

    I've seen a lot of videophones come and go. Just because it uses Linux, doesn't make it better.

    Ok, it does make it better, but would you buy one?